Religious mobilizations for development and social change: Dalit movements in Punjab and Maharashtra, India. Policy Brief.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2010

• Country: India
• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Social Change

Abstract

Analyses of social movements in India have rarely given a central place to the religious dimensions of popular mobilizations. Nevertheless, religion has been an important factor. This research focuses on the place of religion in two lower caste movements for social change in the Indian states of Punjab and Maharashtra: the Ad Dharam/Ravidasi movement among the Chamars of the Doaba sub-region of Punjab, and the neo-Buddhist movement among the Hindu Mahars of Maharashtra.

Citation

Policy Brief No. 8, Religions and Development Research Programme, University of Birmingham, UK, 4 pp.

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Religious mobilizations for development and social change: Dalit movements in Punjab and Maharashtra, India. Policy Brief.

Published 1 January 2010