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100			_aJuneja, Abhishek and Mahmood, Amir _936970
245			_aConstruction of caste as an administrative episteme: a case of neglected materiality
260			_aBihar Journal of Public Administration
300			_a19(1), Jan-Jun, 2022: p.103-113
520			_aThis study attempts to unpack the existing frameworks in which caste is studied in the political sphere. Contrary to the popular notion that administrative categories that populate the census data and eventually welfare policies are based on objective truths, and that knowledge disseminated by means of formal education and vernacular press are value neutral, the fact is that the centralization of colonial state in early 18th century gave contemporary India its present epistemic distinctiveness and political anatomy. The process of enumeration in the census was principled on a religious and ideological reading of caste. In emptying caste of its economic character, colonial laws remolded the primary material verities into metrics of governance. – Reproduced
650			_aCaste, Administrative categories, Materiality, Politicization of caste, FPTP. _935083
773			_aBihar Journal of Public Administrati
906			_aCASTES
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