Everyone accepts that there is a need for an inclusionary process of growth. At the same time there is a real risk: the existing thinking based on neo-social-groups is to legitimize and grant permanency to these constructions. We are fast reaching a situation in which neo-social group defines nationality, deprivation, stratification, political empowerment and governance. A new history of old India is constructed. People’s approach to Indian history, old and new, depends on in which social group they are classified. There is a constant flow from other categories to SC, ST and OBC. There is also some flow from SC to ST or OBC to SC, etc. This flow affects the construction of the Indian history: when people exist as Others they have one view of history and when they are SC, ST or OBC they have another view. Suddenly one finds that as a dominant caste gets classified as low it reinvents history. This is most clear in case of the dominant peasant castes who called them Kshatriyas or Vaishyas and are now covered under OBC. The future of India depends heavily on what ideological tools are used to deal with culture and exclusion, i.e. with how the notions of collective identities shift between people, social sciences and state and market. This has enormous potential to grant nationalities to neo-social-groups. Truth has become political; there is no independent Truth.
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