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The Politics of Caste Reservation in Colonial and Post-colonial Armed Forces of India (1930–2020)

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ID13118403
AuthorsAryama Ghosh (0000-0003-0630-3654, Jadavpur University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-04-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContemporary Voice of Dalit (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2455-328X • E-ISSN: 2456-0502
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2455328x241236628
OpenAlexW4393933465
LanguageEN
References cited10

Recruitment of lower and middle castes remained a much-debated topic in Indian electoral politics till now. On the one hand, there was intense political debate between various castes, and on the other, there was judicial and administrative debate about social justice. Even though Ambedkar tried to use it as a method of social justice and state-sponsored social alleviation, because of its connection to identity politics, it quickly became a matter of electoral mobilization. Various parties that were attempting to win over various communities with their call for military recruitment eventually strayed from the real motivation behind that Ambedkarian demand. Lastly, since the turn of the twentieth century, the new political rhetoric of Hindutva has intriguingly transformed this call for military recruitment into a different cause. This article discusses how the demand for the Chamar Regiment and the Ahir Regiment in particular became the focal point of this debate for nearly a century

Ancient history · Assertion · Caste · Colonialism · French horn · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reservation · Sociology · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Computer Science · History · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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