Essays about: "Caste Politics in India"

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1. 1. Belief in Karma and Political Attitudes

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Albin Östervall; [2022]
   Keywords : karma; karmic belief; political attitudes; ideology; India; Indian politics; conservative dispositions; caste; caste system; varnas; political psychology; political sociology; conservatism; laissez faire; authoritarianism; status quo conservatism; equality; BJP; motivated social cognition; Weber; death penalty; capital punishment; ableism; ableist attitudes; personal responsibility; samsara; ahimsa; retributivism; theodicy; just world belief; karmic causation; justice reasoning; legitimizing myth; legitimizing ideology; Hinduism; Hindutva; politics; religion; karma index;

   Abstract : Many scholars have discussed the sociopolitical consequences of belief in karma but few have investigated such relationships quantitatively. This study aims to establish empirical patterns concerning the connection between karmic beliefs and attitudes related to (i) political ideology, (ii) ableism, and (iii) views on the death penalty. READ MORE

3. 2. Authority Patterns Over Time : a comparison of asymmetric relationships on a local level in India between the 1960s, 1980s and 2010s

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Matilda Arvids; [2021]
   Keywords : authority patterns; asymmetric relations; India;

   Abstract : This study seeks to investigate how authority patterns have changed over time in the Indian districts Guntur and Krishna, by focusing on authority patterns as social relationships. Previous research on authority patterns often focuses on authority patterns as regime types, describing whether a regime is democratic or autocratic. READ MORE

4. 3. Communication for Development in “Mithilanchal”

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Tanushree Sandilya Jha; [2013]
   Keywords : Communication for Development; Mithilanchal; Bihar; India; Role of Media;

   Abstract : ABSTRACT “There are many ways of conceptualizing development, ways that foreground economics, politics, culture, or a combination, and within each of those realms, ways that emphasize processes or structures or both and their relationships. Further, in some perspectives development is geographically inclusive, whereas in others the focus is the so-called Third World or developing countries and their aid needs”. READ MORE

5. 4. Unseen and unheard : how Dalits are represented in three Indian newspapers

   University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it

   Author : Joanna Wåhlstedt; [2012]
   Keywords : caste system; Dalits; development; India; media; minorities;

   Abstract : India has a population of 1, 2 billion people, and the country also has a great poor populationwhere 70 % still live in rural areas. The poorest are often Dalits, once called the untouchablesand they constitute one sixth, 167 million people, of India’s inhabitants. READ MORE

6. 5. India - the Role of Civil Society and the State in a Nation Fragmented by Ethnicity and Religion.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Nina Johansson; [2008]
   Keywords : India; civil society; fragmentation; democracy; violence; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Indian society is made up of a complex web of relations deeply rooted in caste, religion and ethnic belonging. Violence and turmoil is common and the entrance of BJP (the nationalistic party that in many ways have dominated the political scene since the late 1980:s) has greatly increased polarization. READ MORE