This article investigates the claims of backwardness made by two dominant castes, the Lingayats in Karnataka and the … account of how the dominant castes manipulate the state institutional discourse of reservations to seek political legitimacy …. The article also attempts to posit the claims of backwardness of these two castes against each other in order to develop a …

This article assesses the outcome of state assembly elections in Karnataka held in 2013. Extensively using the Lokniti …

in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh shows that the civil society may attempt to influence governance process through multiple … intermediary NGOs: one from Karnataka and the other from Andhra Pradesh. The question this article raises is: in the context of …