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Caste in Everyday Life

Experience and Affect in Indian Society

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Editors:
  1. Dhaneswar Bhoi

    1. Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Hugo Gorringe

    1. University of Edinburgh, Edinbrugh, UK

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  • Uses different methods and approaches across chapters to foreground lived experiences and experiential narrations

  • Explores the Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences

  • Highlights the affective, emotive and sensory aspects and significance of these in case relationships

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in Indian Society

    • Dhaneswar Bhoi, Hugo Gorringe
    Pages 1-26

  7. Economies of Caste: Employment and Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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    2. (Re)Constructing Spatial and Social Relations: Valmikis of Mumbai and Their Everyday Challenge to Caste

      • Raju Chalwadi
      Pages 293-308

    3. Caste, Labour, and Migration: Everyday Pains of Dalits in Brick Kilns

      • Neelima Rashmi Lakra
      Pages 309-331

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 333-340
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About this book

This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations. Considering Guru and Sarukkai’s path-breaking work on ‘Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social’ (2019), this volume applies the insights of the theories to multiple settings, issues and communities. Unique to this volume, Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences are considered, rather than simply focusing on the lives of oppressed castes (Dalits). Analysis of cross-caste friendships or romances and marriages, furthermore, brings out the intimate and ingrained aspects of caste. Taken together, therefore, the contributions in this volume offer rich insights into caste and its consciousness within the framework of everyday experiences. 

Reviews

“This book brings new insights on the inter relational aspects of caste and untouchability, social and psychological, capture inner most psychological harm, hurt, anguish, pain and humiliation faced by untouchables in  normal daily inter action with higher caste ,which is most difficult to capture ,this  book however does it is fairly successfully  and make net value addition to theme , which the scholar will find it extremely insightful.” (Sukhadeo Thorat, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
“Bhoi and Gorringe bring together an excellent set of essays that explore caste and its centrality in everyday life in India. This book is a valuable contribution to critical caste studies.” (Suryakant Waghmore, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Dhaneswar Bhoi

  • University of Edinburgh, Edinbrugh, UK

    Hugo Gorringe

About the editors

Dhaneswar Bhoi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including ‘Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).

Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer & former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Caste in Everyday Life

  • Book Subtitle: Experience and Affect in Indian Society

  • Editors: Dhaneswar Bhoi, Hugo Gorringe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30655-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30654-9Published: 15 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30657-0Due: 29 September 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30655-6Published: 14 September 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 340

  • Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Demography, Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Asian Culture

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