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From the mentality of ‘Rajpath’ to the sentiment of ‘Kartavya Path’

Sociology Syllabus Topic- Paper-1 [Stratification and Mobility]{Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. Dimensions– Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race, Social mobility- open and closed systems}
[Politics and Society] {ideology, Sociological theories of power, agitation,}

Paper-2
[Unit- (B)Social Structure]{Caste system-Louis Dumont,Untouchability} {Systems of Kinship in India- Family and marriage in India [Unit- (C)Social Changes in India]{Visions of Social Change in India- Constitution, law and social change}
{Social Movements in Modern India- Ethnicity and Identity movement, Women's movement, Backward classes & Dalit movement.]

Theoretical perspectives::

Homo Hierarchicus and Homo Equalis

In France, waste bins and containers are called Poubelle. They came to be called so after Eugène Poubelle, a French lawyer and diplomat from a high-status family who introduced waste containers to Paris and made their use compulsory. How we are structured instead is to associate waste with low or outcastes and such thinking is not limited to waste alone.


Intersectionality

Pa. Ranjith’s Natchathiram Nagargiradhu (Star is Moving) reverses and shatters several hierarchies — gender, class, caste, beauty and colour, uprooting the individual and leaving them afloat freely without regressive root. They delve into the complex, particularist, suppressed and forced nature of love in India. They delve into the complex, particularist, suppressed and forced nature of love in India.


Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

Pa Ranjith uses signs, symbols, colours, characters and light cleverly to portray the irony of status dominance and also to celebrate subaltern protest. The theatre group uses the metaphor of the wild cat and the domesticated cat to unravel the irony of caste distinction, hierarchy and honour killings.

Subaltern Perspective

Compassion, liberty and equality are the underlying themes in Natchathiram Nagargiradhu and the subaltern claim to emancipatory universals is at the heart of this movie. Buddha and the Buddhist ideal of compassion are a thread running throughout. It also celebrates the otherwise stigmatised subaltern worlds in several forms including poetry:
Me whose body wears the gentle smell of fresh meat
My house stands showing its skeleton.
Makeshift para drum made with coconut shell and cow skin.
Youngsters who play them on the street.
To you, we live at the far end of the village
But to me, the village begins with us.

Law of Imitation

Ambedkar in Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development (1916), observed that endogamy of caste was a fashion in the Hindu society that originated from the Brahmin caste and this fashion spread through the infection of imitation.

Theory of Social Change

Three Ambedkarite directors – Pa Ranjith, Neeraj Ghaywan and Nagraj Manjule — are changing this fashion. They have raised the bar radically and have continuously explored the cinematic imagination of caste, religion and nationalism. One only hopes this movement revolutionises Indian cinema further and being an Ambedkarite becomes fashionable too.

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