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| Published: June 25, 2016
Do Hindi Cinema & Television Serials Propagate Caste Stereotypes through Surnames of Characters: A Content Analysis
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DIP: 18.01.055/20160303
DOI: 10.25215/0303.055
ABSTRACT
Caste affiliated surnames are very common in India. In fact, they convey a lot of caste stereotypes about the bearer. This is a subtle way of practicing caste based identities and related discriminations. The current study is a content analysis of the surnames of leading fictional characters in Hindi TV serials and movies to see if TV and cinema propagate caste stereotypes through surnames of their fictional characters. The result shows excessive use of upper caste affiliated surnames used both in TV serials and cinema while surnames affiliated to lower castes have negligible presence in these programmes.
Keywords
Stereotype, Caste stereotype, Surname, Television, Hindi Cinema, Media
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2016 I R Maurya
Received: April 04, 2016; Revision Received: May 02, 2016; Accepted: June 25, 2016
Rakesh Kumar Maurya @ mynameismaurya@live.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.055/20160303
10.25215/0303.055
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 3, April-June, 2016