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REVEALED: Mandal | Vintage Vibes

Turnout and tropes: On phase two voter turnout and election rhetoric

A comparative assessment of polling in the second phase of the general election follows earlier trends

The Hindu

Malefactors and misgivings: On the Congress and the INDIA bloc

The Congress should avoid the temptation to emulate these aspects of old Mandal politics that prioritised casteist identities as the basis for political mobilisation

The Hindu

New BJP-JD(U) alliance may cap the evolution of social justice politics

The text discusses the political dynamics in Bihar, highlighting Nitish Kumar's shifting alliances and the rise of Hindutva, rendering traditional social justice politics obsolete.

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‘Paltiputra, limitations of Mandal’: Editorials on the Patna powershift

Nitish Kumar has switched sides again, with his fifth crossover in around a decade set to mark his ninth as the Bihar chief minister.

Newslaundry

A census for a new deal

The Bihar caste survey inaugurates not the re-enaction of the old Mandal politics of narrow caste-based patronage, but the coming-of-age of a subordinate class-based politics

The Hindu

Bihar caste survey results may open door to challenging 50% ceiling on reservations

With the EBCs accounting for 36% of Bihar’s population, and Nitish Kumar being credited for fashioning a support base from this category in the last two decades, his claims to the top chair in the INDIA bloc will be hard to ignore.

The Hindu

Mumbai's Lalbaugcha Raja receives donations over Rs 1 crore in 2 days of Ganesh Chaturthi

Mumbai’s famous Lalbaugcha Raja Mandal received donations of over Rs one crore in two days of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Lord Ganesh idol adorned with 69 kg gold, 336 kg silver in Mumbai

Gowd Saraswat Brahaman (GSB) Seva Mandal, ahead of Ganesh Chathurthi, installed an idol of Lord Ganesh adorned with 69 kg of gold and 336 kg of silver in Mumbai on Monday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Why Nitish Kumar is counting on a caste count in Bihar

His electoral stock vis-a-vis the BJP is dwindling — the enumeration exercise could help him recover political capital

The Hindu

The Bihar government’s caste-count

Why has the State BJP backed the exercise, while the Centre is opposed to a caste census?

The Hindu

Socialist leader Sharad Yadav bids adieu to Lutyen’s Delhi after four decades

In his own assessment, he says he will be remembered for Mandal, caste census, and ironically, the stalling of the Women’s Reservation Bill.

The Hindu

Bihar assembly paralysed over caste census issue

PATNA: The Bihar assembly was on Friday paralysed by vociferous protests by the opposition which accused the Nitish Kumar government of dragging its feet on a state-specific caste census.

The Times of India

Is caste identity politics an answer to religious identity politics?

Despite the setback in U.P., Bahujan politics will remain a challenge to BJP hegemony

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