Social Change, Ahead of Print. Pratibha Ray, Yajnaseni [Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi] (Odia), Adya Prakashani, 2012 (76th ed.), 429 pp., ₹200, ISBN: 978-81-908545-0-2 (Hardcover).
Social Change, Ahead of Print. Seeds are the building blocks of food security, and their free exchange amongst the farming community has formed the bedrock for maintaining genetic diversity in addition to food security and sovereignty. The appropriatio…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. K. B. Saxena (Ed.), Poverty and Deprivation: Changing Contours (Sage, 2023), 335 pp., ₹1,495, ISBN: 978-93-9137-076-3 (Hardcover).
Social Change, Ahead of Print. This article aims to understand the acts of resistance in the everyday music of oppressed caste communities and the repertoire of anti-caste musical performances in specific moments in history. The everyday soundscape has…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. Narayana Guru (1856–1928), in whose name the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam was formed in early twentieth-century Kerala, challenged the claim that brahmins made to the exclusive possession of the wisdom and practi…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. In this article, we recount the development of an anti-caste consciousness in queer and transgender rights movements in India. We begin by tracing the history of queer mobilisation in India, especially the political parti…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. The Vanniyar caste became an important political player in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s, a decade widely acknowledged as a crucial and interesting decade in Indian politics in general and Tamil politics in particular. The Vann…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. In the last three decades or so, there have been considerable political changes in Uttar Pradesh (UP), particularly where caste is concerned. This is linked to the anti-caste movements in the state and the rise of the Bah…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. In the last three decades or so, there have been considerable political changes in Uttar Pradesh (UP), particularly where caste is concerned. This is linked to the anti-caste movements in the state and the rise of the Bah…
Social Change, Ahead of Print. Manoj Mitta, Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India, Context, 2023, xxviii + 596 pp., ₹999, ISBN 978-9-3577-6294-6 (Hardback).