Much of the source of emergent class-based disparities is intricately entwined with the socially imposed forms of social stratification of race, gender, or caste. The forms of social exclusion often remain unseen and invisible in everyday life as discriminatory practices are not always overtly blatant. Disguised under the pretence of objectivity, fair process, and merit, discriminatory practices appear subtler, making their mundane operation undetectable and even misleading to believe in their absolute absence in the modern world. Poised between the debates on the influence of modern urban spaces and processes on the traditional caste system and vice versa, the book explores how space and identity converse and influence the nature, manifestation, (ir)relevance, and fate of caste in the globalising metropolis of Delhi vis-a-vis reorders the urban.

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Introduction Caste, Urban, and Emancipation

  • Rama Devi

摘要

Much of the source of emergent class-based disparities is intricately entwined with the socially imposed forms of social stratification of race, gender, or caste. The forms of social exclusion often remain unseen and invisible in everyday life as discriminatory practices are not always overtly blatant. Disguised under the pretence of objectivity, fair process, and merit, discriminatory practices appear subtler, making their mundane operation undetectable and even misleading to believe in their absolute absence in the modern world. Poised between the debates on the influence of modern urban spaces and processes on the traditional caste system and vice versa, the book explores how space and identity converse and influence the nature, manifestation, (ir)relevance, and fate of caste in the globalising metropolis of Delhi vis-a-vis reorders the urban.