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        <journal-title>Indian Journal of Social Enquiry</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">IJSE</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">applied</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0974-9012</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Prof Gitanjali Chawla</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJSE1170001</article-id>
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        <article-title>Caste Narratives in Socio-cultural Perspectives</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Arya</surname>
            <given-names>Charu</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-09-02">
        <month>09</month>
        <day>02</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>7</fpage>
      <lpage>19</lpage>
      <abstract>
        <p>Understanding Caste in the historical perspective can be broadly analysed as
division of people on the basis of their ethnic and economic skill-based divisions.
This leads us to develop a deeper understanding of the need for creating caste
divisions, that could not sustain their original roots and gradually developed
to make these divisions as permanent categorisation based on the birth of an
individual into a particular caste. This research will analyse various perspectives
that allowed an understanding of various discourses born out of narratives
that open this discourse further and create an opportunity to build neo-dalit
perspectives towards Dalit identities. Dalit narratives are strong arguments
that emphasise the need for bringing these narratives in to mainstream literary
canon. Reading Ambedkar to Yagati Chinna Rao to Bama in detail, this paper
will build a discussion around Dalit identities from a critical perspective.</p>
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        <kwd>Caste</kwd>
        <kwd>Dalit narratives</kwd>
        <kwd>Discourse</kwd>
        <kwd>Neo-dalit</kwd>
        <kwd>Dalit intellectuals</kwd>
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