Post-independence consolidation to 1991
Tribals, caste and untouchability after independence
Concepts to cover
- Nehru's tribal panchsheel, Verrier Elwin, Fifth and Sixth Schedule administration, Jharkhand demand
- Untouchability abolition, Republican Party of India 1957, Dalit Panthers 1972, Ambedkar's conversion 1956
- Kaka Kalelkar Commission 1953, Mandal Commission 1979 report 1980, reservation politics
Where to study
India Since Independence (Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee), Google Books record with table of contents
- ch. Consolidation of India as a Nation III: Integration of the Tribals
- ch. Caste, Untouchability, Anti-caste Politics
Politics in India Since Independence, Textbook in Political Science for Class XII (prelims and contents)
- ch. 2 Era of One-Party Dominance