Caste, Class and Gender

Paper Code: 
WMS-221
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper gives a brief introduction to the students as to how gender permeates the institution of caste and class in India. This would enable them to grasp the collective consciousness and make changes at their own level and in their surroundings.

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Caste and Gender – reproduction of patriarchy.

 

What are Class, Tribe and Caste in India: Questions of transitions and continuum.

 

 

12.00

Women centric interpretation of materialist analyses of caste.

 

 

12.00

Enforcing and Contesting Cultural Codes.

 

12.00

Gendering material arrangements in Rajasthan

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Marriage and the reproduction of caste – endogamy and exogamy: Uma Chakravarti, Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens, Kolkata, Stree, 2003.
  2. Caste Contestation, Class Formation, Nationalism and Gender, in Chakravarti, Uma, Rewriting Histories,
  3. Sharmila Rege, Dalit Feminist Standpoint, in Anupama Rao ed. Caste and Gender, Delhi Kali for Women, 2003.
  4. Lina Fruzetti: Chapter I, Gift of a Virgin, Delhi, OUP, 1990.
  5. The Theory of Varnasamskara; S J Tambiah, ‘From Varna to Caste through mixed Unions’ in Jack Goody ed., The Character of Kinship, Cambridge, CUP, 1973.
  6. Caste Panchayats and the reinforcing of marriage structures; Vasudha Dhaagamwar, The Meaning of Lynch Justice, Mainstream, 25 September, 1993
  7. Invasion of the Criminal Law by Religion, Custom and Family Law, EPW, 38, 15, 12-18 April 2003.
  8. State Institutions and inter-caste marriage; Courting Disaster, PUDR, 2003;
  9. Parveez Mody: Love and Law: Love Marriages in Delhi, Modern Asian Studies, 36, 1, 2002, pp.223-256.
  10. Labour and production: Prem Chowdhry,
  11. The Veiled Women, Delhi OUP, 1994;
  12. Jean Luc Racine, Viramma;
  13. Karin Kapadia, Shiva and her Sisters;
  14. Malini Karlekar, Poverty and Women’s Work, Delhi, Vikas, 1982.
  15. M N Srinivas, Collected Essays, Delhi OUP 2000
  16. Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus, London, Paladin, 1972.
  17. Claude Meillasoux, Are These Castes in India, Economy and Society, 2, 1 (February 1973)
  18. Erik Olin Wright, Classes.
  19. Ashok Rudra, Class Relations in Indian Agriculture, EPW, 13 Nos. 22, 23, 24, 1978.
  20. Anand Chakravarti, Caste and Agrarian Class: A View from Bihar, EPW 36, 17, April 28, 2001
  21. PUDR Reports:  Agrarian Unrest in Patna 1982; Bitter Harvest, 1994
  22. Reading and discussions on stories from Tapan Basu, ed. Translating Caste, Delhi, Katha, 2003 (Oorakali, Paddy, and Kulghati)
  23. Panishwar Nath Renu, Maila Anchal, National Book Trust, Delhi
  24. N K Bose, The Structure of Hindu Society, Delhi, Orient Longman, 1975.
  25. Dev Nathan, Introduction, From Tribe to Caste, Shimla, IIAS.
  26. Tiplut Nongbri, Gender in the Khasi Family Structure, in Patricia Uberoi, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, Delhi, OUP, 1994.
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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