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Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy

Michelutti, L; (2019) Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy. In: Srivastava, S and Arif, Y and Abraham, J, (eds.) Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. SAGE: London, UK.

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Abstract

One late afternoon in March 2014, I stopped to buy a sari at the local cloth shop in the central bazaar of a provincial town in western Uttar Pradesh (UP). It was a month before the general Lok Sabha elections. While I was looking at the different fabrics and sipping tea, the shop owner and four other clients started an animated debate about the current UP government and upcoming elections. The shop owner Manoj Yadav (65 years old) and the clients belong to the local Yadav community. I have known the three of them since 1998 when I started to conduct research in the area. In the preceding ...

Type: Book chapter
Title: Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy
DOI: 10.4135/9789353287801.n14
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9789353287801.n14
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: anthropology; caste; democracy; elections; political parties; political party; politics; voting
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051682
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