Annotated Bib: Untouchable

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna. "Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class." Economic and Political Weekly 34.27 (1999) : 1759-61. Print.


A source I found for my essay on Untouchable is Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class by Ramkrishna Mukherjee. In this scholarly article, he discusses the relationship between caste and class in India and how they were both tied to the Indian's identification with his own land. Communalization was a major factor in Indian identity and villages and everybody was tied to their role in the community and with what they had to do in order to support it. Also, Mukherjee talks about how capitalization (established by India itself, and also by Britain) affected caste and how India changed over time.

Mukherjee's article is useful because it gives me an alternate perspective on how the caste system worked and it provides an economic and a sociological perspective on caste and class. Even so, it gives me a limited view of how caste and class affected identity their social impact on it. His source is a solid source that is very educated and informative on one part of my essay.

Mukherjee's article is a solid article because it covers all the bases on caste and class in India. It helps me shape my argument because it provides me with valid points of view on caste and class and it further reinforces my notion that caste and class are intertwined and inseparable in India. I can use this source to help me further my argument on false consciousness and it could help me expand on how caste and class affected Bahka in 1930's India and how it could tie into race as well.