Examining Caste and Religion in Post-Industrial Mumbai - OxPO ...
Examining Caste and Religion in Post-Industrial Mumbai - OxPO ...
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<strong>Caste</strong> & Occupation: The Debate<br />
<strong>Caste</strong> (or jatis) <strong>and</strong> its association with occupations <strong>and</strong><br />
status<br />
Occupations ascribed by birth<br />
Restrictions on occupational mobility<br />
Modernization Thesis: Weaken<strong>in</strong>g of community identities<br />
<strong>in</strong> urban <strong>in</strong>dustrial context (e.g. Sr<strong>in</strong>ivas 1969).<br />
<strong>Caste</strong>, religion <strong>and</strong> gender determ<strong>in</strong>ed what work<br />
<strong>in</strong>dividuals did <strong>in</strong> the textile mills (Ch<strong>and</strong>avarkar 1994).<br />
Exclusion of Dalits (ex-untouchables) from Weav<strong>in</strong>g Sheds<br />
Muslims as ‘neo-untouchables’ (Hansen 2001).
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