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100 _aPandian, M.S.S.
245 _aOne step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere
260 _c2002
300 _ap.1735-741.
362 _a4 MaY
520 _aThe contradictory engagement with modernity by the lower castes has an important message: being one step outside modernity alone can guarantee them a public where the politics of difference can articulate itself, and caste can emerge as a legitimate category of democratic politics. Being one step outside modernity is indeed being one step ahead of modernity.
650 _aCaste
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
909 _a52271
999 _c52271
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