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Remembering Andre Beteille: Some Reflections on Caste in India Today | Srinivasulu Karli

Karli Srinivasulu — 2026-05-01T03:15:46Z

With the passing of Andre Beteille, a scholar who shaped generations of students and devoted more than five decades to research in Indian sociology, we witness the close of a remarkable legacy that was distinguished by an exceptional synthesis of theoretical depth and experiential understanding, firmly grounded in rigorous fieldwork. Beteille

- 2026

Book Review of Anand Teltumbde, The Caste Con Census | Srinivasulu Karli

Karli Srinivasulu — 2026-01-24T06:19:42Z

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The Caste Con Census
by Anand Teltumbde
Navayana Publishing, New Delhi
2025
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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
There is a strong association made out in the existing discourse on caste in which caste data collected through the census is shown to be critical to the pursuance of social justice politics. This, of course, is sharply articulated by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan of 'jitni abadi, utna haq' (rights proportionate (…)

- 2026 / Book Review

Review of Bala Ramulu Chinnala's Development Strategies and Governance in India | Srinivasulu Karli

Karli Srinivasulu — 2025-11-22T16:37:55Z

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Development Strategies and Governance in India:
Predicaments and Challenges
by Bala Ramulu Chinnala
Routledge
2025
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Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
Post-independent India

- 2025 / Book Review

Sri Lanka Today: A Visitor

Karli Srinivasulu — 2025-04-13T00:26:31Z

As one comes out of the Bandaranaike International Airport

- 2025

Caste Enumeration Controversy in Telangana | Srinivasulu Karli

Karli Srinivasulu — 2025-03-08T04:26:47Z

The Congress government in Telangana is mired in a controversy pertaining to the results of the caste enumeration it made public. The Congress under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi promised caste enumeration as part of the party

- 2025

Handloom Weavers

Karli Srinivasulu — 2025-02-08T16:34:13Z

Handloom weaving is a major employer after agriculture in India. It is spatially integrated with the diverse regional political economies and sociologically heterogeneous as caste- communities numerous and as diverse as backward castes, minorities like the Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis are engaged in handloom production for their livelihood.
The handloom weaving has historically been highly a decentralised sector spread over across the length and bread of the country and been known for (…)

- 2025

Ranajit Guha (1923-2023) and his Legacy | Karli Srinivasulu

Karli Srinivasulu — 2023-05-20T05:33:29Z

The publication of the first volume of Subaltern Studies in 1982 under the editorship of Ranajit Guha has been viewed as a major ‘turn' in the modern Indian historiography. The publication of Guha's The Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency the next year added theoretical gravity to this thus making him a formidable historian of ‘lower orders' in colonial India. The fact that Subaltern Studies series with a new volume every year came to be earnestly looked forward to by scholars across (…)

- 2023

Re-imagining Social Justice Politics in India Today: Idea, Promise and Practice | K Srinivasulu

Karli Srinivasulu — 2023-04-29T10:19:39Z

With the formation of the All India Federation for Social Justice (AIFSJ) at the initiative of DMK Chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, MK Stalin last year and convening of its conference in the first week of April 2023 in Chennai and the promise of regular conferences of the forum, the idea of Social Justice seems to have come back to the centre of Indian social, political and electoral discourse. Though what social justice means and what its character would be and ought to be in the (…)

- 2023

Politics of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh: Mapping Trajectories of Change in the Post-Bifurcation Period | Karli Srinivasulu

Karli Srinivasulu — 2022-05-27T19:04:01Z

The state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the two states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh (AP) in 2014 after nearly six decades of existence. It is more than seven years since they came into being as two separate states. Two elections to their state assemblies and two parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2019 have been conducted, leading to a restructuring of political regimes, strengthened development-welfare policy focus, new political contestations, and enhanced modes of coopting and (…)

- 2022

Rabindranath Tagore, Rural Crisis and Recovering Community: Relevance of a Legacy for Neo-Liberal India | Karli Srinivasulu

Karli Srinivasulu — 2022-04-01T06:05:20Z

by Karli Srinivasulu *
There are striking similarities between the rural life in the late colonial India that is in the inter-war period and today's liberalising India. Rabindranath Tagore living in close contact with the rural Bengal and intellectually reflecting on the socio-economic life displayed an unusual sensitivity to the rural crisis that engulfed the agrarian and rural artisan communities. This led to certain concrete initiatives like Sriniketan with the aim of educating the (…)

- 2022