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VOL. 4, ISSUE 2 (2022)
Political awareness and political participation of schedule caste women-A study in Telangana State
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Gundeti Suman
Abstract
Political participation refers to those voluntary activities by which members of a society show active interest and play a role in the selection of rulers. It includes voting, seeking information, discussing, attending meetings, contributing financially, and communicating with the representatives, enrolment in a party, canvassing and registering voters and working in campaigns. It is clear that the term political participation draws our attention to political activities rather than attitude and behaviour of private citizen to those who are professionally involved in public affairs. The constitution of India has assured equal political rights of political participation irrespective of caste, class, religion, gender and place of birth. However, the scheduled caste communities are lagging behind in respect of political participation. There are multiple factors are present in our society which threatening them in politics, and one of the factor is caste. As compared to political awareness, participation seems to be less, but the fact remains that scheduled castes’ women and the Indian women in general don’t get much opportunity for political participation, except for voting on Election Day. Even the turn out during the elections in Telangana is quite low as compared to many other states.
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Pages:8-12
How to cite this article:
Gundeti Suman "Political awareness and political participation of schedule caste women-A study in Telangana State". International Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Vol 4, Issue 2, 2022, Pages 8-12
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