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(I liked the part when she tells the Indian at the newsstand not to talk to her because she is of a higher caste.
India suffered caste conflicts, clashes over the rights of different linguistic groups, religious riots (mainly between Hindus and Muslims), and separatist threats.
Though Indian politics is hardly immune to the appeal of sectarianism, its people have come to accept the idea of India as one land embracing many differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallying around a democratic consensus.
As a result, the explosive potential of caste division also has been channeled through the ballot box, with the lowest of the low attaining high office.
The most egregious vestiges of caste discrimination are gradually disappearing.
Equitable progress is the only sustainable long-term solution to India’s entrenched problems – whether corruption, poverty, caste wars, or religious conflict.
But it was Madiba – the tribal name by which South Africans of every caste and color now affectionately call him – who made the crucial difference.
She was born into the Dalit caste, the “untouchables,” who in former times would never have gotten anywhere near the elite, except to sweep their floors.
After so many years of Social Democratic rule, a large political caste has also developed.
India’s nationalist leaders would have been forgiven for arguing that they needed dictatorial authority to cope with such immense problems, especially in the most diverse society on earth, riddled with religious, linguistic, and caste divisions.
There is social oppression and caste tyranny, particularly in rural India, but Indian democracy offers the victims a means of escape, and often – thanks to the determination with which the poor and oppressed exercise their franchise – of triumph.
The episode shows that India’s much-touted economic development has shallow roots, as it has failed to deliver caste equality and social justice to the underclasses.
Of course, politicians incite many of these conflicts, using caste, sect, and religion--not political ideas--to build voter loyalty.
Back then, parliament was seen as a means to bridge the divides of caste, religion, and region.
Instead, race and caste remain as potent as ever.
Every now and then, particularly before elections, caste groups demand to be placed on the list of “other backwards classes” (OBC’s), in order to benefit from these reservations.
Many consider India’s increasing mobilization along caste lines a welcome assertion of “identity.”
Indeed, intellectuals and politicians of all varieties almost unanimously hail the politics of caste identity as a move towards true equality.
Some go so far as to argue that the recent rise of the lower castes in northern Indian politics and the implementation of reservations by the central government amount to a silent revolution, and that the politics of caste is secular and a bulwark against religious sectarianism.
Whether caste is a good indicator of socioeconomic deprivation remains an unsettled issue.
Indeed, the protagonists of caste politics and caste-based public policy simply cannot validate their assertions, offering only small-sample surveys that can be grossly misleading in the context of a huge country characterized by monumental diversity.
Since India gained its independence, the government has systematically refused to collect sufficient data on the socioeconomic aspects of caste.
If caste is a good indicator of deprivation now, it should have been even clearer in the past.
But statistical analysis of this evidence – the only accessible macro-level quantitative data for the whole country – does not confirm caste as a clear indicator of deprivation.
For example, less than one-third of workers in this period followed their traditional caste occupations.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
Each caste contained a varying mixture of landless laborers, cultivators, and landlords.
Thus, the economic status of households varied a great deal within each caste.
In any case, the majority of peasants belonging to any caste, upper or lower, were poor.
Consider the average economic position of the members of each caste in this sample.
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