UNCASTE: Understanding Unmarriageability: The Way Forward To Annihilate Caste - Softcover

Siddharthar, A.B. Karl Marx

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9354068367 ISBN 13: 9789354068362

Publisher: Karl Marx Siddharthar, 2020

Synopsis

'Uncaste' is the stellar outcome of the Author's 8 years of patient and persistent research on India's Caste System and the mystery of how it survives. The book is stellar not only in the sense of decoding the sustaining mechanism of Caste but also in constructing a clear pathway to annihilate it. Hence, what begins as a scholarly exposition passionately progresses in issuing a manifesto to perish the Caste System.By completely tilting the perspective of the readers and compelling them to look at the caste system through the institution of marriage and family, 'Uncaste' succeeds in prickling the most progressive minds that deceive to be Casteless.The stigma of Unmarriageability expounded by the Author glaringly challenges the intellectual acumen of the Sociologists and Scholars in rightly studying the system of Caste. Academicians are forced to enter into the bloated vacuum that they have so far bypassed in their study. And, Law-makers are cornered to bring in Abolition of Caste into the Constitution.For the Young generation that yearns for an ideal society but casually overlooks the stains of discrimination that it makes, this book means a spearhead into their conscience.Close to 80,000 words in total, two chapters of this book have already found its place in International Journals.Book Review:Bhatkal & Sen (Publisher): Certainly, this is an original way to understand the very real situation of untouchability as it comes to inter-caste marriage. Not much has been done on these issues focusing on kinship and family.Cambridge (Publisher): The area of your work appears to be quite interesting.SAGE Publications (Publisher): This is an interesting subject area.Vidya Bhushan Rawat(Author and Columnist): This work looks enormous and highly impressive as well as essential.Suraj Yengde (Author, 'Caste Matters'): It is an exciting concept and needs serious attention. I enjoyed the Author's style. Kalpana Kannabiran (Director, Council for Social Development): The book looks very interesting.V. Geetha (Author and Feminist Scholar): This is a very intriguing manuscript, with a great deal of potential for being developed into an original treatise on caste and untouchability. The marking of untouchables as 'Unmarriageables' is an important departure - in that it shifts the argument about separation, abjection and suffering, from civil and social spheres, to that of family and kinship. While sociologists, anthropologists and anti-caste political thought are all agreed that endogamy sustains the caste system, very little work has been done on utilising this as a theoretical principle, to build arguments or movements. Each time a so-called 'honour' killing happens, or a khap panchayat delivers a horrific verdict, we pay attention to the crossing of sexual conjugal boundaries. But seldom do we treat these deaths as emerging out of the 'unmarriageable' status that the caste order has accorded to untouchables. Peer Review of Chapter 3 in the JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES:It is a powerful argument that combines Dr.Ambedkar's "Annihilation of Caste" and "Castes in India". The focus on 'naming' seem to have properly identified Dr.Ambedkar's challenge to the clichéd remark "what is there in a name?". The writer of the article developed his argument "everything is in the name" into a methodology of studying caste. It is very much relevant in the present context of the increasing honor killing across the country. The argument is placed within the wider context of the scholarships on Caste and Dalit Studies. In the future, the argument could be developed accommodating the studies on Indian Feminism. The article added a socio-psychological dimension to the existing sociological discussion of caste.

Edition details

• Publisher: Karl Marx Siddharthar
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354068367
• ISBN 13: 9789354068362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250