LEADER 04709nam 22007335 450 001 9910988288303321 005 20250322115436.0 010 $a9789819608324 010 $a9819608325 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-96-0832-4 035 $a(CKB)38111605000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-96-0832-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31973476 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31973476 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938111605000041 100 $a20250322d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCaste and Emancipatory Quest $eEthnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood /$fby Rama Devi 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XXI, 275 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9789819608317 311 08$a9819608317 327 $aChapter I Neighbourhood Encounters: Inter-caste relations and Perceptions -- Chapter II Yaha Padhai Ka Mahaul Nahi Hai: Education, Caste and Gender -- Chapter III Intergenerational Mobility: Occupational Aspirations, Struggles and Precarity -- Chapter IV Politics of Representation: Caste, Co-option and Dalit Politics. 330 $a?A sobering and unique reality check of Caste discrimination of Dalits in urban India: discrimination is alive and kicking, despite modernization, rapid economic growth, and urbanization. ?Caste and Emancipatory Quest? provides unique ethnographic insights into caste-based discriminatory social lives, skewed access to education, and caste barriers to and at work in the metropolis of Delhi. Different Dalit backgrounds and patriarchy complicate matters. This is a must-read for scholars and anyone who believes caste discrimination is a thing of the past in urban India?. -Jens Lerche, Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London ?Empirically rich and conceptually nuanced, Rama Devi?s book explores the urban lives of caste in India of the 21st century. The different chapters of the book provide detailed accounts of the empirically complicated processes of identity negotiations in the emergent spatial context of a ?poor? locality of India?s capital city. Resisting the temptation of easy judgments and popular polemics, the book highlights the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urban life with a focus on the complex ways through which caste persists while undergoing significant changes?. -Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life. The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness. Rama Devi is a sociologist whose research focuses on contemporary caste, and urban Dalit lives. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre De Sciences and Humaines (CSH), Delhi. Previously, she taught social science courses at KREA University. Her research work and opinion pieces have been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Sociological Bulletin, LSE Blogs, and Economic and Political Weekly. 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aUrban policy 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aSocial choice 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aRegionalism 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aDevelopment Studies 606 $aUrban Policy 606 $aUrban Sociology 606 $aSocial Choice and Welfare 606 $aRegionalism 606 $aSocial Justice 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aUrban policy. 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aSocial choice. 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 0$aRegionalism. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 14$aDevelopment Studies. 615 24$aUrban Policy. 615 24$aUrban Sociology. 615 24$aSocial Choice and Welfare. 615 24$aRegionalism. 615 24$aSocial Justice. 676 $a338.9 700 $aDevi$b Rama$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01803252 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910988288303321 996 $aCaste and Emancipatory Quest$94349999 997 $aUNINA