Caste Matters in Public Policy

Rahul Choragudi is Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.Sony Pellissery is Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.

• List of illustrations Notes on contributorsPreface Introduction: The career of caste in public policy Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, and N. JayaramPART IThe national scenario 1 Caste in and out of place: State, market, and culture Stig Toft Madsen2 Enumerating caste in the census: Is it useful for public policy? N. JayaramPART IIPerspectives from the states 3 Awareness and access to social security among the unorganised worker households: A study of scheduled caste sub-plan and tribal sub-plan in Karnataka D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula4 Addressing graded inequality among the scheduled castes: Internal reservation as a strategy Arvind Narrain and Basawa Prasad Kunale5 Caste and politics: Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu R. Saravana Raja6 Economic prospects, protective discrimination, and the changing hierarchy: An ethnographic study in a coastal village in Andhra Pradesh Rahul Choragudi7 Caste and public policy: The case of West Bengal Antara Ray8 Development policies and marginal groups: Case study of dhobis in Delhi Subhadra Mitra ChannaPART IIICaste beyond Hinduism 9 Despite equality: Sikhs and the caste issue Paramjit S. Judge10 Caste and caste discrimination among Christians and Muslims: A case for revisiting the ambit of protective discrimination policy Gaurang R. SahayEpilogue: Caste in public policy analysis: Rediscovering public sphere through institutionalist lens Sony PellisseryIndex

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