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1. #5: Caste and Vernacular Democracy: Post-postcolonial Transformation in Rural India
2. India and Orissa
3. Postcolonial India:old framework and old question
4. "Hinduism" and "caste" as orientalist perspectives to explain the politico-economic stagnancy and problems of India
5. Caste in India: Indian people as "Homo Hierarchicus"
6. Change in India's situation
7. New question:
8. Democracy in India
9. A view from the field in Orissa
10. Earlier attempts at reformulation of inter-caste relationships from below
11. New attempts to demand equal participation and shares in the political sphere
12. reformation of local government toward democratization at grassroot level
13. Institutional democratizationof local politics
14. How to bring about democratic inter-caste cooperation?
15. Attempts from below toward new vision of community
16. Vernacular idioms used to envision new democratic politics
17. Egalitarian sacrificial ethics for democratic representation and cooperation
18. vernacular democracy
19. Cooperation of diversities
20. The post-postcolonial transformation
21. Caste as the possible basis for democratic cooperation of diversities?
22. Toward a fruitful churning of old and new, global and local
23. Bibliography
24. Q1 from Kyoto Univ.
25. Q2 from SFC
26. Q3 from Kyoto Univ.
27. Q4 from Kyoto Univ.
28. Q5 from Kyoto Univ.

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