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CASTE, COMMUNICATION AND POWER
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Edited by Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi
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  • ISBN 13 : 9789391370824
  • year : 2021
  • language : English
  • binding : Softcover
Description
Caste, Communication and Power explores communication and the constitution of caste in Indian society. Intimately connected, both communication and caste are determined by historical developments. The book looks at communication as a lens to study caste and power relations, with its immense potential to shape perception and affect ground reality. It also studies the evolution of the conceptual and theoretical foundations of caste and power relations, and maps their emergence from communicative resources and practices. These communication practices are inevitably linked to the social structure, with their reliance on symbolic forms of self-expression, often revealing the underlying ideological attitudes. The book studies this interface of culture and media, evaluating the caste question and the associated power relations in terms of modes of communication practised in the society. Contents: Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi Caste and Power in Everyday Life: Tropes, Interplay and Negotiation SECTION I (Re)imagining Caste: Theories, Concepts and Trajectories Hira Singh Caste and the Dalit Question: Mainstream Sociology, Marxism and Dalit Studies Archana Singh and Biswajit Das Caste, Community and Communication in India: Revisiting D.N. Majumdar’s Contribution and Beyond Bhairabi Prasad Sahu Facets of the Caste System in Early India: Changing Forms of Expression, Communication and Its Spread Vijay Kumar The Etymological Origin of Caste, Communication and Khatik in the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries Colonial UP SECTION II Caste and Lifeworlds: Rituals, Folklore and Orality Subhadra Mitra Channa Negotiating Caste Hierarchies Through Symbolic Praxis Neerja Singh and Namit Vikram Singh Popular Culture and Social Movements: A Caste Based Narrative Dev Nath Pathak Communicating the Contestation of Caste: In Between Folklore and Modern Literature in Mithila Asha Singh Pedagogies, Social Transformations and New Oralities of Arjak Sangh SECTION III Culture, Subversions and Representation Prashant Parvataneni Popular Subversions: Aesthetics of Resistance in Kaala Sushmita Pandit Caste, Class and the Market: Representation of Caste in Hindi Television Serials Benson Rajan and Shreya Venkatraman Dalit Empowerment, Narratives and Violence: Locating Ambedkar through Select Films Rohan Sengupta Lives of Voice: Radio Commentary and the Grammar of Sporting Merit in Postcolonial Calcutta SECTION IV Mediation, Negotiation and Re-appropriation of Caste M. Suresh and V. Ratnamala Imagined Caste in Digital Banners of Tamil Nadu Ritu Sharma Caste Identity, Communication and New Social Movement Jasmine The Power Dynamics Behind Labelling in the Food Culture of India Debarati Dhar New Media, Caste and Ageing Population: A Study of Appropriation in Select Areas of West Bengal J. Balasubramaniam SECTION V Pariyan: Print Media, Mobilization and Resistance in Colonial Madras Shardool Thaku Caste Identity and Self-fashioning in Mulkraj Anand’s Untouchabler Mayank Kumar Communicating Caste: Investigating Chandrakanta Akshay Sawant Marathas, Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Contestations: Press and Public Sphere in Early 20th Century Index