Deshpande, Rajeshwari - In: Studies in Indian Politics 2 (2014) 2, pp. 169-183
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 …