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Caste politics in Bihar: In historical continuum
This article provides a long-term narrative of movements for social change in Bihar, precipitated by the steady rise to political power by the Backward Classes/Castes in the state, since 1989. Locating this moment in a longer momentum of struggle since the 1920s, it probes the antecedents of recent social change in Bihar politics. Contextualising this process within a long recessional, it traces a larger democratic cycle of empowerment going back to the early twentieth century. The article attempts the historicisation of Bihar politics by drawing upon a variety of sources—from official records to newspapers—and supplementing them with relevant secondary literature.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
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History and Sociology of South AsiaVolume
12Issue
2Pages
115 - 136Citation
ANKIT, R., 2018. Caste politics in Bihar: In historical continuum. History and Sociology of South Asia, 12 (2), pp.115-136.Publisher
SAGE Publications © Jamia Millia IslamiaVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-03-10Publication date
2018Notes
This paper was published in the journal History and Sociology of South Asia and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/2230807518767968.ISSN
2230-8075eISSN
2249-5312Publisher version
Language
- en