Community and Identities

Surinder S Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He specialises in the subjects of social stratifcation, agrarian social change, rural India, development studies and the dynamics of caste and community identities in contemporary India. He has published extensively including an edited book on Community and Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India (2001).

• PrefacePART ONE: COMMUNITY AND IDENTITIES: CONCEPTUAL QUESTIONSIntroduction - Surinder S JodkhaThe Concept of Community in Indian Social Sciences - Carol UpadhyaAn Anthropological PerspectiveIn the Tracks of Community and Identity - Sasheej HegdeDeepening the InterrogationThe Eclipse or the Renaissance of ′Community′? The Career of the Concept - Ravinder KaurPART TWO: CASTE, CLASS AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY IDENTITIESIs Caste Appeal Casteism? Oppressed Castes in Politics - Javeed AlamThe Ambiguity of Categories - D ParthasarthyCommunity and Identity in the Kapunadu MovementNarratives in the Re-Constitution of Communities - A R VasaviCommunity, Identity and Politics - Sujata PatelThe Baliapal MovementPART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE SPATIAL REARTICULATION OF COMMUNITIES`Can You Talk Indian?′ Shifting Notions of Community and Identity in the Indian Diaspora - Aparna RayaprolThe Spatiality of Community - Satish DeshpandeEvaluating the Impact of Globalization on Regional IdentitiesPART FOUR: MINORITIES, WOMEN AND COMMUNITIESFluid Boundaries - Rowena RobinsonIndian Christian CommunitiesCommunity, Women Citizens and a Women′s Politics - Anupama RoyIndex