Twitter Google Share on Facebook (redirected fromScheduled castes and scheduled tribes) Wikipedia sched·uled caste (skĕj′o͞old, -o͞o-əld, skĕj′əld) n. Any of the historically disadvantaged Indian castes of low rank, now under government protection. ...
Gandhi's 'jitni aabadi, utna haq' promise, asserting that his foremost priority is the welfare of the poor. He also questioned the Congress' stance on minority rights, referencing Manmohan Singh's 2006 statement. PM Modi's remarks followed the release of Bihar's caste survey data, ...
Bihar]In this article, I examine the ways in which a politics of caste empowerment that became central to democratic politics in much of north India in the early 1990s altered the ways in which the state was popularly imagined. Many people began to perceive state institutions as inherently ...
Similarly, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), another caste-based party in eastern state of Bihar, was routed, drawing a zero in the elections. The RJD believed that those belonging to the "Yadav" caste and the Muslim community were its traditional vote-bank, but it would not be so in this...
Madhuraj Madhu from Buxar, Bihar - Has written dialogues for Bhojpuri films. Chamaar-Today Manjeet Roopowalia- Punjabi Singer. Ravidassia/ Chamar: [76]. Manmohan Waris-Filmistan and Punjabi Singer: Chamar [77] Master Saleem (son of Ustad Puran Shahkoti): Mirasi: [78]. Mika Singh:...
BiharIn this article, I examine the ways in which a politics of caste empowerment that became central to democratic politics in much of north India in the early 1990s altered the ways in which the state was popularly imagined. Many people began to perceive state institutions as inherently ...
BiharOdishaDespite having equally vast endowments of natural resources and similar socioeconomic profiles, the Indian states of Bihar and Odisha pursued markedly different development strategies during India's first decade of economic liberalization. Whereas Bihar turned away from its natural resource sector...
Though this kind of class turned into caste conflict remained a reality throughout India but it has been more pronounced in northern India particularly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar... During the last few decades or so, there have been a number of changes in the old system with the arrival ...
Migrant labour from less-developed states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh came as a relief for the Jat farmers. The local Dalits too saw in this an opportunity to move away from agrarian employment, which also implied moving out of relations of dependency. They shifted to odd jobs in the local ...