{"id":1372,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-rise-of-caste-politics-is-to-be-attributed-to-both-regional-upsc-psir-2023-2407\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:24","slug":"the-rise-of-caste-politics-is-to-be-attributed-to-both-regional-upsc-psir-2023-2407","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-rise-of-caste-politics-is-to-be-attributed-to-both-regional-upsc-psir-2023-2407\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of caste politics is to be attributed to both regional aspirations and electoral manifestations. Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 rise * survival of hierarchy \u2192 transformation by democracy \u2192 Kothari&#039;s \u201cpoliticisation of caste\u201d R2 the statement&#039;s two engines named \u2192 regional aspirations + electoral competition drive caste&#039;s political rise<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">politicisation of caste \u2192 regional aspirations (caste composition varies by region \u2192 Naicker&#039;s non-Brahmin Dravidian identity vs high-caste \/ North Indian dominance \u2192 Dalit Panthers&#039; Maharashtra roots \u2192 Rudolphs&#039; \u201cbullock capitalists\u201d as landowning regional forces) \u2192 electoral turn (adult franchise \u2192 numbers into votes \u2192 tickets \/ candidate selection \/ vote banks \u2192 caste parties BSP \/ SP \/ RJD convert caste into representation \u2192 social-engineering coalitions) \u2192 Srinivas: reservation + political opportunity transform the hierarchy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">empowerment but double-edged \u2192 Varshney: elections successful, democracy between elections weak \u2192 Mehta: representation- responsiveness gap \u2192 fragmentation as easily as empowerment<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 both claims hold \u2192 regionally grounded aspirations channelled through electoral competition R2 Kaviraj: hierarchy of castes \u2192 democracy of castes \u2192 but justice cannot end at caste arithmetic<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[34],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[65],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1372","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-34","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-caste-religion-and-ethnicity-in-indian-politics","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1372\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}