Author: Rishvanth Reddy Mucheli
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Persistence of Caste as the axial principle of stratification
Based on his twenty-one-year fieldwork, Jonathan P Parry authored ‘Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town’, in which he argued the weakening of the caste system as a principle of stratification. According to Parry, with a few exceptions, class system is key for social divisions and in determining social behaviour…
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Book Review: Police matters: the everyday state and caste politics in South India, 1900–1975, by Radha Kumar
This book explores the role of state policing in shaping caste politics in the Tamil countryside from 1900 to 1975. Using the archival records preserved in rural police stations, the author argues that policing as a coercive instrument of state power produced and deployed knowledge of caste in its interactions with subject-citizens through routine police…
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The Essence of Right to Vote in Indian Democracy
JBS Haldane, an eminent British biologist of 20th Century, who settled in India and later became Citizen of India towards the end of his life, when asked by an American Journalist about what makes him proud to be an India, he said, “I happen to be proud of being a citizen of India, which is…
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Democracy or Dictatorship?
In democratic societies, expressing displeasure on the government and political leadership is routine affair. It is characteristic of any ideal democracy to allow the space for people to express their discontent on its working. At times, individuals detest democracy itself as the cause of miseries in the nation and advocate for replacing the democratic system…
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Rejuvenation of the Buckingham Canal
The rapidity of transformation of human civilization increased manifold since the inventions are made in the mode of transportation. Even in India, beginning with the colonial period and after independence, continuous efforts are made to improve the transportation networks in the country connecting the length and breadth of the subcontinent. At present, governments are developing…
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Book Review: Why I am not a Hindu woman: A personal story by Wandana Sonalkar
Why I am not a Hindu woman: a personal story by Wandana Sonalkar, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021, pp 169. Wandana Sonalkar is a self-proclaimed atheist and in this autobiographical account titled ‘Why I am not a Hindu Woman’, Sonalkar critically reflects on her position on why she has chosen to renounce her religion. This…
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Book Review: REIMAGINING THE WORLD
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy ‘What lies ahead? Reimagining the world. Only that.’ With these above lines, Arundhati Roy ended her introduction and they reflect what Roy set out to do in the book ‘Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction’. In the nine essays in this book, most of which are previously published or given…
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Conceptualizing Gandhi’s Thinking
Writing an essay on Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Philosopher Akeel Bilgrami noted that “Its generally foolhardy to write about Gandhi, not only because you are never certain you’ve got him right, but because you are almost sure to have him wrong”. This is a pessimistic proposition in the light of the huge corpus of literature that…
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Archives: National Council of Labour Colleges and its role in Working Class Education
England of the 19th Century experienced the tremendous growth of the working class and middle class, alongside with growing of working class consciousness that came from the realisation of the exploitation of the industries and from the frustration due to subsequent failure of capitalists as well as the state in addressing the working class grievances.…
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