Caste in a New Light: Jati in British Multiculturalism

IF 0.5 Q3 LAW
Prakash Shah
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Abstract

Advocates of multiculturalism claim that it supports the rights of cultural minorities and the public recognition of cultural differences. However, this article shows that this cannot be true of Indian culture as it has become transported to Britain, where multiculturalism actually poses a threat to it. Using the resources of the research programme of the Ghent School on the comparative study of India and Europe, this article substantiates this claim by showing how the dominant conception of cultural differences as well as the classical conception of the Indian caste system, which takes over the Indian social structures of jati, are both imported by multiculturalist thought and practice. The concretizing of multiculturalism in the form of anti-discrimination law is not only anticipated by a destructive politics of identity, but the law itself can be used to foster the destruction of Indian culture on the pretext of targeting the discriminatory caste system.
新光下的种姓:英国多元文化中的贾蒂语
多元文化主义的倡导者声称,它支持文化少数群体的权利和公众对文化差异的承认。然而,这篇文章表明,这对印度文化来说是不可能的,因为它已经被运送到英国,在那里多元文化主义实际上对它构成了威胁。本文利用根特学派关于印度和欧洲比较研究的研究项目资源,通过展示文化差异的主流概念以及接管印度贾蒂社会结构的印度种姓制度的经典概念是如何被多元文化主义思想和实践所引入的,来证实这一说法。多元文化主义以反歧视法的形式具体化,不仅是一种破坏性的身份政治所期待的,而且法律本身也可以用来以针对歧视性种姓制度为借口,促进对印度文化的破坏。
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Onati Socio-Legal Series
Onati Socio-Legal Series Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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