Fluid identities, contested categories: Jats, Patels and the demand for reservation in India

IF 0.9 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Asian Ethnicity Pub Date : 2021-02-09 DOI:10.1080/14631369.2021.1886579

Radhika Kumar

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT The most recent demand for reservation quotas in India has come from the regionally dominant castes of the Jats and Patidars in the arena of education and employment. However, given their status as ‘dominant’ castes, it is paradoxical that these castes are claiming a ‘backward’ status. This demand raises questions of two kinds. Firstly, what is the nature of caste identity that they wish to leverage for purposes of gaining access to state quotas? Secondly, what are the different ways in which identities, expectations and mobilisations are shaped by electoral politics? The paper argues that ethnic identities are fluid which take on newer features and markers as they interact with categories of recognition that the state establishes. These negotiations have been exacerbated by electoral politics and the policy of economic liberalisation which have together upset dominant caste equations.

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流动的身份，有争议的类别:贾特人，帕特尔人和印度的预留需求

摘要：印度对保留名额的最新需求来自教育和就业领域中占地区主导地位的贾特人和帕蒂达尔人种姓。然而，考虑到他们作为“主导”种姓的地位，这些种姓声称自己处于“落后”地位是自相矛盾的。这种需求提出了两种问题。首先，他们希望利用种姓身份的性质来获得国家配额？其次，选举政治塑造身份、期望和动员的不同方式是什么？该论文认为，种族身份是流动的，当它们与国家建立的承认类别相互作用时，会呈现出新的特征和标记。选举政治和经济自由化政策共同打破了占主导地位的种姓制度，加剧了这些谈判。

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Asian Ethnicity PHYSIOLOGY-

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2.80

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： In the twenty-first century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in single-discipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. Asian Ethnicity covers any time period, although the greatest focus is expected to be on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.