Encyclopaedia Of Scheduled Castes In India South India

Book Code: 1111008613605

Nandu Ram

ABOUT THE BOOK

Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes in India has published in 5 Volumes. There are 1109 individual Scheduled Castes discussed in this multivolume set. Volume-1, covers entire Scheduled Castes in South Zone, numbering 382, and distributed in all the four states and Union Territory of South India. They are Andhra Pradesh (61); Kerala (69);Karnataka (101); Tamil Nadu (76); Pondicherry (16); Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Telangana (59). Followed by WEST ZONE (Vol. 2) Goa (5); Gujarat, (36); Dadra & Nagara and Haveli (4); Daman & Diu (5); Lakshadweep; Maharashtra (59); Rajasthan (59). Followed by CENTRAL ZONE (Vol. 3) Chhattisgarh (44); Madhya Pradesh (48); Uttar Pradesh (66). Followed by NORTH ZONE (Vol. 4) Haryana (37); Delhi (36); Himachal Pradesh (57): Jammu & Kashmir (13); Uttarakhand (65); Punjab (39); Chandigarh. Followed by EAST AND NORTH EAST ZONE (Vol. 5) Bihar (23); Jharkhand (22); Orissa (95); West Bengal (60); Assam (16); Sikkim (4); Arunachal Pradesh; Manipur; Meghalaya, (16): Mizoram (16); Nagaland; Tripura. (34). All Individual Scheduled Castes consist of a constant contents, namely,  Notification; Statutory position; Synonyms including Surnames, titles, etc; Origin and Ethnic Identity; Decennial growth and Distribution of Pulation; Famely structure and clan; Languages and Literacy; Life cycle and related Customs; Traditional and Present occupations; Religious beliefs and Practices; Food habits and Dwelling Patterns; Status in Local traditional caste hierarchy; Structure of social control within the caste; And social change and mobility in each caste. The focus is to highlight social change, along with the said themes and sub-themes, in case of each Scheduled Caste over the past hundred years or so. But it primarily emphasizes social change and mobility among the people of each Scheduled Caste through their social movement, including self-initiatives, and the State sponsorship. Yet, the status or rank of each Scheduled Caste and change, if any, occurred therein in the traditional local caste hierarchy, along with changes in status or position of its members in the secular domains like education, employment, etc. has been analysed in both diachronic and synchronic fashions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nandu Ram teaches Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where his currently Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor of Sociology set up by Dr. ‘Ambedkar Foundation, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, New Delhi. In between, he was Director General of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar National Institute of Social Sciences, MHOW (now Dr. Ambedkar Nagar), District Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Over the past 30 years of teaching and research at I. I.T. Kanpur and J.N.U., New Delhi, he has accumulated lots of insights from within in understanding and analysing social phenomena as well as Indian social reality as such. He has also developed a perspective called views or ‘perspective from the below’, an alternative theoretico methodological perspective or approach in sociological enquiry, which has inspired a large number of young scholars in pursuing their social research. His areas of specialisation are sociology of marginal groups and communities, minorities and ethnic groups, social stratification and social mobility, study of rural and urban societies in India, and so forth. He has published a large number of articles and research papers in Indian and foreign journals and chapters in edited books. His widely read books are Mobile Scheduled Castes: Rise of a New Middle Class (1988), and Beyond Ambedkar: Essays on Dalits in India (1995). Encyclopaedia of Scheduled Castes in India 5 volumes (set) (2023). His other books in press are Dalits in Contemporary India,Vol. 1: Discrimination and Discontent, and Vol. 2; Reservation, Development and Discontent. He is also the General Editor of a proposed series in Dalit Studies in India.