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[00:00:00]Castization of politics and politicization of cast.

[00:00:03]Right? So, it is still continuing and there's a wonderful book that you can always quote, Cast in its 20th Century Avatar by M.N. Srinivas.

[00:00:12]Cast in its 20th Century Avatar.

[00:00:17]So, basically the idea is Srinivas says, "Cast was about to die.

[00:00:26]It was on a lifeline.

[00:00:28]But then came the democracy.

[00:00:31]Right? And democracy is a game of numbers.

[00:00:36]So, if you have the numbers, you can get a seat.

[00:00:40]And to get that, you will mobilize people as per their cast.

[00:00:45]Now comes the very important observation. Can you say this phenomena here? So called I'm not judging, I'm asking you whether it's [music] a right thing or a wrong thing.

[00:00:55]Be a sociology student right now, not a GS student.

[00:01:00]Not a good thing, why?

[00:01:02]>> Because it creates divisions >> Divisions are already already there.

[00:01:07]This is the first time voiceless are getting their voices.

[00:01:12]And this is what someone calls uh Okay, when upper cast is there, they don't even know this. When you look at it and this is why reservation on merit debate and all those things are there.

[00:01:25]They don't understand first, they're not starting on the same point.

[00:01:28]For the first time in history, and this is why India's experiment was the boldest experiment in humanity. Right?

[00:01:36]I've been sub core equal vote diya hai.

[00:01:38]Us ki wajah se now for the first time, they are asking their own right. Yeah, maybe it's because of the last year that it will not hold up.

[00:01:46]Please give me something.

[00:01:48]So, we cannot say castization of politics or politicization of cast is wrong per se. [music] And this is what Christophe Jaffrelot says, you don't use the name, but this is what they say, silent revolution.

[00:02:02]You use these keywords.

[00:02:04]Answer will still be there by the generic templates. No, no, it won't.

[00:02:08]A chance of public agenda when you have understanding of sociology or society in that matter. If the caste equation is used, this This is the silent revolution. Why silent?

[00:02:18]Democratic is all right. Go and call me and better.

[00:02:22]And this is how everyone is getting their due place.