Developmental Genealogies and Alternative Problematizations

This chapter produces accounts that address question 3—How has this representation of the ‘problem’ come about? I present briefly, a historical context of development agencies and discourses of ‘anti-discrimination’ in response to question 3—which urges researchers to develop genealogies of the ‘problem’. I argue that an intersection of caste-based subjectivities with postcolonial subjects is produced through anti-SHW policies (and allied policies and discussions). Within this narrative, I observed a legal, academic and policy aversion to conceptualize postcolonial and neoliberal governmentalities as projects of caste-based subjugation (Kaul N. Ind Politics Policy 2(1):3–30, 2019).