I am in Allahabad at present, in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The state has always been focus of national politics. Below are two facts that support previous statement.
1. Out of 15 prime ministers till date, 9 are from UP.
2. Many regional parties from UP grew to become national level parties (BJP, BSP, SP etc).
I along with my colleague traveled to a village in Phoolpur tehsil of the district. We were there for the purpose of piloting a take up survey. The survey has a question on caste category and religion. The women whom we interviewed neither knew the caste category nor the religion. The village was a ambedkar gram though. You can find more about ambedkar gram here (hindi website). I was not surprised at this fact. Last year I interviewed women in the same geography and found that women did not know what religion they belong to?
The fact that all the politics is based on religion and caste moved me though. Abhishek, our project assistant commented, " all the politics is about religion and caste of these people who do not know what religion they belong to?" This is the state which influences the politics of the country the most.
1 comments:
two potential explanations
1. the women didnt understand hindi
2. they thought you were there to identify members of a particular caste/religion to do bad things to them
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