Yashpal Jogdand

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | IIT Delhi · Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Our aim in this chapter is to argue that we ignore the active process of mobilisation at our peril. To do so does not just render our work incomplete, it invalidates the work we have already completed. We shall look at some of the most iconic studies in all of psychology; we shall show how leadership and mobilisation are at their core, and how the...

We contextualise Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj, and Kumar’s (2014) paper within a broader literature on caste and collective mobilisation. Cotterill and colleagues’ paper represents a fresh and timely attempt to make sense of the persistence of caste from the perspective of Social Dominance Theory. Cotterill and colleagues, however, do not examine...

Guided by a self-categorisation and social-identity framework of identity entrepreneurship (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001), and social representations theory of history (Liu & Hilton, 2005), this paper examines how the Hindu nationalist movement of India defines Hindu nationhood by embedding it in an essentialising historical narrative. The heart of the...

This chapter examines the role of humiliation in experiences of collective victimization. Humiliation is conceptualized as a self-conscious emotion that is distinct from shame, anger, and embarrassment. Humiliation is experienced when dehumanizing and devaluing treatment occurs that is appraised as illegitimate. The chapter discusses the paradox in...

Psychology limits the scope of raising questions important in the caste context. While psychology focuses on why and how people feel humiliated, the question in the caste context is why and how people do not feel humiliated despite incessant and gratuitous attacks on their dignity and self-worth. This article argues that psychology needs to adopt a...

Despite its relevance to understand toxic human behavior, the phenomenon of humiliation remains poorly understood. Humiliation constitutes an attack on human dignity. It is an important psychological construct rooted in complex power relations involving both individuals and social groups. Attending to interactions between humiliation and technology...

On February 12, a first-year Dalit student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, died by suicide. The 18-year-old student, Darshan Solanki, had faced casteist humiliation, according to his family. Jogdand, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, told Scroll in a...

We invite contributions that attempt to bridge the theoretical and empirical gap between caste and psychology. Contributions will draw on theoretical and research foundations within Psychology and related fields to bring together emerging perspectives, offer novel insights into caste-related cognition, emotion, and behavior, and provide directions...

Umesh Bagade’s historic critique of the caste blindness of the Subaltern Studies project retraces its emergence as a criticism of the Nationalist and Marxist schools of Indian history. He shows how the subaltern historians borrowed Antonio Gramsci’s concept of “subaltern” in order to retain a broadly Marxist framework without “class” but discarded...

While confronting a “polar night” ahead, Weber thought that only charismatic leaders could be the solution (Weber, 1921). Weber’s solution could be spectacularly wrong in the current situation. The challenge for future leadership is not about embodying the charisma, but about developing effective leadership without succumbing to tyranny. This would...

French Translation by Mathieu Ferry. Published in REVUE DES FEMMES PHILOSOPHES — N° 4—5 (French version), pp. 242-250

Special issue no 4-5 (English version) of Unesco-International Women Philosophers' Journal (Revue des femmes philosophes) on the present political conjuncture in India dominated by Hindu nationalism. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000265538.locale=en EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Coordination: Barbara Cassin Isabelle Alandary, Françoise Balibar...

The classroom is an important space and time in one’s intellectual life: a space that facilitates the dialogue, both outer and inner; a time when one is exposed to different meanings of the things one usually takes for granted. It is plausible that the people who aspire for ‘the life of the mind’ should receive their inspiration in the classroom. Y...

In what ways is the meaning and practice of politics changing? Why might so many people feel dissatisfied and disaffected with electoral politics? What approaches do political activists use to raise issues and mobilise people for action? What role does the internet and social media play in contemporary citizenship and activism? This book brings tog...

The intractable group conflicts, mass killings and genocides around the world attest to the role of humiliation as a negative force causing violence and destruction. Based on the analysis of the speeches of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the most important leader of Dalit (ex-untouchables) in India, we suggest that leaders possess the capacity for creative use...

Social science is replete with debates asking if people act in terms of self-interest or not. This is equally true when it comes to explanations of political participation. Our argument is essentially that this is a false debate. The question shouldn’t be about whether, it should be about what it means to act in terms of self-interest. Our contenti...

Introduction Our argument in this chapter is very simple. People participate politically when it is in their interest to do so. This may not be a wise way to start. Already, much of our audience will be alienated and many may be drifting away. On the one hand, the statement seems so bland as to be meaningless. Of course people participate because i...

This thesis examined the nature, experience and consequences of humiliation among Dalits (ex-Untouchables) in India (and also among UK students for comparative purposes). Social psychological research looks at humiliation as automatic, extreme and intense emotion which often leads to extreme and irrational behaviors (Lindner, 2002; Otten & Jonas, 2...

In this talk, I will briefly summarise some early qualitative and experimental research on experience and action consequences of humiliation and mainly elaborate on the analysis of speeches of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important leaders of Dalits in India, during early years of Dalit mobilisation. Using this research, I will argue that hum...

OBJECTIVE: There is paucity of empirical research on the experience and consequences of humiliation on group level. In two experiments with group of students in UK (N= 143) and group of Dalits in India (N=181), we examined the nature of humiliation as a group emotion and its action consequences. METHOD and DESIGN: The experiment was embedded in an...

The Dalit experience in India suggests that there is need to understand humiliation as an emotional consequence of identity denial. Also, the anti-caste movement emerged in Indian context emphasizes that the feeling of humiliation, howsoever painful and negative, needs to be looked in positive light. On moral and political grounds, the feeling of h...

Objectives: Available literature posits that humiliation often leads to violent retaliation and revenge due to element of anger involved in its experience. However, we doubt this as humiliation is an experience strongly tied with oppressed and powerless groups in the society who have less support to strike back. Thus we set out to more fully explor...