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5 - Linking Caste and Surveillance

How Digital Governance Has Legitimised Caste Discrimination in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

Michael Kwet
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut and University of Johannesburg
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The goals of independent India of achieving the constitutional promise of an egalitarian society have largely been led by an emphatic endorsement of the right to equality on one hand, and the implementation of positive discrimination measures, such as caste-based reservations in public employment and education, on the other. The idea of redistributive justice was a common theme often visited in the Constituent Assembly Debates.1 India shares a long history of social and economic oppression with most other countries in the developing world. While the markers for such oppression are often race and socio-economic status, or both, in most parts of the world, in India, caste and tribal identity remain the most important vectors for discriminatory practices and structural inequities.2

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Print publication year: 2023

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