The Intensification of the Caste Divide: Increasing Violence on the Dalits in Neoliberal India

• Autores: Jyoti D. Bhosale
• Localización: Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades y Relaciones Internacionales, ISSN 1575-6823, ISSN-e 2340-2199, Vol. 27, Nº 58, 2025, págs. 517-539
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.12795/araucaria.2025.i58.23
• Títulos paralelos:
  • La intensificación de la división por casta: el aumento de la violencia contra los dalits en la India neoliberal
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    Este artículo realiza un estudio del aumento de los casos de violencia contra los dalits en la India contemporánea. El artículo defiende que dicha violencia se enmarca dentro del contexto de las reformas económicas de la década de 1990, que dieron paso a las políticas neoliberales de privatización y la retirada de otras relacionadas con el Estado del bienestar. Además de una mayor relevancia del mercado, esta transición económica, defendemos, ha implicado una revisión conceptual del objeto de la justicia social como un mandato constitucional. A través de un examen de la violencia física, estructural y simbólica infligida a los dalits, este artículo demuestra que la división por casta no solo ha evolucionado en su forma, sino que también se ha intensificado.

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    This paper is a study of the increasing instances of violence on the Dalits in contemporary India. It contextualises such violence in the new economic reforms of the 1990s which inaugurated the neo-liberal policies of privatisation and signified a withdrawal from a certain kind of state welfare. Apart from the extended role for the market, such a transition is also worked out by manoeuvring with the constitutional mandated form of social justice. By examining the physical, structural, and the symbolic infliction of violence on the Dalits, this paper argues that the caste divide has not only evolved in form, but also intensified

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