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100	1		_aNIELSEN Kenneth Bo
700			_aSAREEN Siddharth
700			_aOSKARSSON Patrik
245			_aThe politics of caste in India's new land wars/ _cKenneth Bo Nielsen, Siddharth Sareen & Patrik Oskarsson
260			_c2020
520			_aIn this article we introduce the special issue through framing the debate on the role of caste in India's current land wars. We draw attention to how caste consistently mediates land transfers in present day India by pre-empting, undermining, or fuelling processes of social contestation, as well as the ways in which land claims in turn shape realigned or reimagined caste identities. Based on this, we make three main arguments. The first and most obvious one is that in contemporary conflicts over land, caste matters in evolving ways that deserve attention. Second, we argue that caste and land are recursively linked categories that are produced and reproduced in continuous interaction, even as multi-scalar political economies (re)shape them. And third, that different registers of caste are articulated by different social groups in more or less overt ways as they stake often competing claims to land.
650			_aLAND WARS
650			_aCASTE
650			_aPOWER
650			_aLAND GRABBING
650			_aDISPOSSESSION
773			_aJournal of Contemporary Asia: _gVol.50, No. 5, December 2020, pp.684-695 (107)
598			_aPOLITICS, INDIA, CONFLICT
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2020.1728780 _zClick here for full text
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