Caste Matters in Public Policy

Rahul Choragudi is Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. Sony Pellissery is Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India. N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: The career of caste in public policy

Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, and N. Jayaram

PART I

The national scenario

1 Caste in and out of place: State, market, and culture

Stig Toft Madsen

2 Enumerating caste in the census: Is it useful for public policy?

N. Jayaram

PART II

Perspectives from the states

3 Awareness and access to social security among the unorganised worker households: A study of scheduled caste sub-plan and tribal sub-plan in Karnataka

D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula

4 Addressing graded inequality among the scheduled castes: Internal reservation as a strategy

Arvind Narrain and Basawa Prasad Kunale

5 Caste and politics: Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

R. Saravana Raja

6 Economic prospects, protective discrimination, and the changing hierarchy: An ethnographic study in a coastal village in Andhra Pradesh

Rahul Choragudi

7 Caste and public policy: The case of West Bengal

Antara Ray

8 Development policies and marginal groups: Case study of dhobis in Delhi

Subhadra Mitra Channa

PART III

Caste beyond Hinduism

9 Despite equality: Sikhs and the caste issue

Paramjit S. Judge

10 Caste and caste discrimination among Christians and Muslims: A case for revisiting the ambit of protective discrimination policy

Gaurang R. Sahay

Epilogue: Caste in public policy analysis: Rediscovering public sphere through institutionalist lens

Sony Pellissery

Index