Correct Answer - Option 1 : Rajni Kothari
A caste system is a form of social inequality prevalent in India.
- Casteism refers to the social division of groups of people based on the occupations they follow.
- Casteism influences politics in India as, to win, all political parties need to take care of 'caste sentiments', while doing campaigning or filling nomination.
Rajni Kothari wrote the book, Caste in Indian Politics.
- Rejecting the prevailing division between traditional society and modern polity, Caste in Indian Politics examines their interaction in a given community and territorial settings.
- This book includes nine studies, out of which four are based on a detailed investigation of individual caste movements and structures and their induction into the political process.
- The other five focus on the macro dimensions of the political involvement of caste.
- This book tries to bring out the real change that has taken place in the inter-relationship between the earlier social structure of Indian and democratic politics and underlies the emerging idiom of social-political behaviour.
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Rajni Kothari has been a renowned academic who has always emphasised living a life of the mind.
- He is the founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, a leading institute in the sphere of social sciences, and Lokayan.
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R. P Dutt was a journalist and theoretician in the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Mahatma Gandhi or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India.
