Class, Caste, Gender

Manoranjan Mohanty is a renowned political scientist and China scholar whose writings have focused on theoretical and empirical dimensions of social movements, human rights, the development experience and the regional role of India and China. As Vice-President of the Council for Social Development (CSD) and Editor of CSD’s social science journal Social Change, published by SAGE, he brings a wealth of experience from both policy and practice perspectives. He is also Chairperson, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. Until 2004, he was Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, and Professor of Political Science at University of Delhi where he taught until his retirement. Former Chairperson and Director of ICS and former Editor of China Report, he has been on visiting assignments in several universities and research institutes in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley; Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Oxford, Beijing, Copenhagen, Lagos; University of California, Santa Barbara; and the New School, New York. Professor Mohanty has been a part of the founding and evolution of ICS, the Developing Countries Research Centre at University of Delhi and Gabeshana Chakra and Development Research Institute in Odisha. He has also been closely involved with the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, and the Pakistan–India People’s Forum for Democracy since their inception. He was part of the founding process of the Boao Forum for Asia in China and REGGEN, the Third-World sustainable development network in Brazil. His other contributions include ‘China’s Reforms: The Wuxi Story’ in China after 1978: Craters in the Moon (2010), Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping (2014), ‘Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms in India and China’ in Public Sector Reforms in China (2014) and ‘India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World’ in Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey (2015).Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, DelhiEmail: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com

• Preface - Manoranjan MohantyIntroduction: Dimensions of Power and Social TransformationPART ONE: CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STATECaste and Agrarian Class - Anand ChakravartiA View from BiharThe Political Economy of the Economic Reform Strategy - Prabhat Patnaik et alThe Role of the Indian Capitalist ClassThe Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K BhowmikTrade Unions and the StatePART TWO: CASTE DOMINATION AND POLITICAL POWERCastes in India - B R AmbedkarTheir Mechanism, Genesis and DevelopmentCaste in Modern India - M N SrinivasCastes in Indian Politics - Rajni KothariReservations Policy Revisited - D L ShethCaste or Class or Caste-Class - Kancha IlaiahA Study in Dalit-Bahujan Consciousness and Struggles in Andhra Pradesh in 1980sThe Language of Dalit-Bahujan Political Discourse - Gopal GuruPART THREE: GENDER INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGEConceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India - Uma ChakravartiGender, Caste, Class and StateAn Overview of the Status of Women in India - Neera Desai and Maithreyi KrishanarajWomen and People′s Movement - Ilina SenA Space within the StruggleGender Inequality and Women′s Agency - Jean Drèze and Amartya SenConclusion: Social Movements in a Creative Society - Manoranjan MohantyAppendixIndex