{"id":10677,"date":"2020-12-30T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:56:37","slug":"caste-based-area-names-to-be-changed-across-indian-state-to-increase-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/caste-based-area-names-to-be-changed-across-indian-state-to-increase-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"CASTE-BASED AREA NAMES TO BE CHANGED ACROSS INDIAN STATE TO &#8216;INCREASE UNITY&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CASTE-BASED AREA NAMES TO BE CHANGED ACROSS INDIAN STATE TO &#8216;INCREASE UNITY&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0 (Relevant for Sociology Syllabus: Paper 1- Stratification and Mobility &amp; Paper 2- Caste System)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0(Relevant for GS Syllabus: Paper1- Social empowerment, Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.)<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/symbolic-colors-of-india-289x300-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10678\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/symbolic-colors-of-india-289x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/symbolic-colors-of-india-289x300-1.jpg 289w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/symbolic-colors-of-india-289x300-1-145x150.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Millions of people in Maharashtra to have neighbourhoods renamed but critics say plan means little without behavioural change<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The names of neighbourhoods in the Indian state of Maharashtra based on the caste of people who have traditionally lived there are to be be changed, to reflect the <strong>country\u2019s evolving attitudes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><u>In the same way Indian surnames reveal the caste to which a person belongs, neighbourhoods have acquired names based on the caste of the community that predominates.<\/u><\/li>\n<li><strong>For centuries, villages have been organised on the basis of caste<\/strong>, <strong>with strict segregation that confines the lower castes to the fringes.<\/strong> Some towns, too, have certain areas inhabited by the members of a particular community.<\/li>\n<li>The Maharashtra government has decided that, <strong>for a country that keeps promising to eliminate the caste system, to have neighbourhoods and roads named after a particular caste is undesirable.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cKeeping that in mind and to maintain social harmony and goodwill in the state to increase national unity, all caste-based names of areas and localities in rural and urban parts of the state will be changed,\u201d<\/strong> said the state\u2019s social justice minister, Dhananjay Munde earlier this month.<\/li>\n<li>Places in Maharashtra, home to 125 million people, will be renamed after well-known social workers or local activists so that no caste is indicated.<\/li>\n<li>But columnist Chandra Bhan Prasad, who writes on caste issues, is unimpressed<strong>. \u201cWithout a change in people\u2019s consciousness and behaviour, this is just a childish antic. Changing the names of places is only of value as a minor media story, nothing else,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/li>\n<li>Despite efforts to erase the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-35650616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">caste system<\/a>, it remains resilient. Earlier this month, a dalit (formerly known as an untouchable) youth in Gujarat was assaulted after being asked his caste by co-workers, and giving the name of a higher caste. His other \u201coffence\u201d was wearing his shirt unbuttoned. Trying to look fashionable if you are a dalit is a crime in the eyes of some upper-caste Hindus.<\/li>\n<li>The question of surnames is something everyone is aware of. Upper-caste Hindus who do not know someone\u2019s caste, and know that it is politically incorrect to ask directly, will try to find out a person\u2019s surname so they can <strong>\u201cplace them\u201d<\/strong> in society.<\/li>\n<li>Some people from lower castes have abandoned their surnames, going only by their first name, as a gesture of rebellion against being instantly branded the moment they utter their surname.<\/li>\n<li><strong><u>IN 2015, SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT NARENDRA JADHAV SAID HE HAD CONSIDERED BRINGING\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Ban-surnames-to-end-casteism-Narendra-Jadhav\/articleshow\/53590871.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A PRIVATE MEMBER\u2019S BILL<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>TO PARLIAMENT OUTLAWING SURNAMES ALTOGETHER, LEAVING INDIANS WITH ONE-NAME IDENTITIES AS A WAY OF DEFEATING CASTE. HOWEVER, HE FAILED TO PURSUE THE IDEA.<\/u><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Last year the elected councils of 24 villages in Haryana state near the Indian capital decided <strong>that no one could use their surname.<\/strong> <strong>Instead, they could use the name of the village as a surname.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In Chennai, Sneha, a lawyer, has refused, as a <strong>matter of principle<\/strong>, to state her caste on any official document for 35 years. <strong>Finally, she obtained a certificate from the government stating what she wanted, namely, that she belonged to no caste.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASTE-BASED AREA NAMES TO BE CHANGED ACROSS INDIAN STATE TO &#8216;INCREASE UNITY&#8217; \u00a0 (Relevant for Sociology Syllabus: Paper 1- Stratification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,114,115,116],"tags":[4150,1300,1696,1869,4149,4147,4148,4151],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-i","category-society-and-social-issues","category-sociology-optional","category-sociology-optional-paper-i","category-sociology-optional-paper-ii","tag-behavioural-change","tag-caste-system","tag-india","tag-maharashtra","tag-national-unity","tag-neighbourhood-names","tag-social-harmony","tag-surnames"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}