ISSN (Print): 2328-3734, ISSN (Online): 2328-3696, ISSN (CD-ROM): 2328-3688 American International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences AIJRHASS 13- 232; © 2013, AIJRHASS All Rights Reserved Page 156 AIJRHASS is a refereed, indexed, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and open access journal published by International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR), USA (An Association Unifying the Sciences, Engineering, and Applied Research) Available online at http://www.iasir.net ALIENATION AND INCLUSION POLICY: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF BARARA VILLAGE OF AGRA DISTRICT Professor Poornima Jain Head, Sociology and Political Science & LLLE DEI (Deemed University), Agra. I. INTRODUCTION Alienation is a socio - psychological state within an individual in which he feels „no sense of belonging‟ to his community, group or nation. The alienated person, as described by Fromm (1963) does not experience himself as the centre of his world, as the creator of his own acts but acts and their consequences become his masters ,whom he obeys or whom he even worships. Seeman (1959) believes that the broad concept of alienation might be conceptualized in five fold dimensions: powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation, and self estrangement. Alienation has been treated as personality variable by many investigators. Alienation means separation from the group to which one belongs. It is generally expected that persons who benefit from the reservation policy assume more social responsibility and accountability. After availing the benefits of Inclusion policy, they are expected to play a vital role in the development of their community. If they alienate from their people, they render a disservice to them. Alienation, thus becomes inevitable. It is found that “Reservation Results in Alienation”(Paswan,Jaideva,2002). From the above discussion, the importance of studying the feeling of alienation among reserved as well as unreserved categories becomes self explanatory. Despite reservation quota in all central and state government services, the scheduled castes have not been able to get their satisfactory representation into either of these. The question arises whether the special privileges granted to scheduled caste tended to foster security, self pride and self independence among them. Singh (1987) in his study of Jaunpur district concludes that depending so much on government initiative, the scheduled castes will be isolated from mainstreams of life and their personal initiative will be killed. Present paper is an attempt to explore the state of alienation in reserved as well as unreserved categories in Barara village as an outcome of the Inclusion policy, as it empowers the traditionally deprived and alienated sections on the one hand and on the other, empowered persons of the Reserved category may due to one or the other reason feel alienated within their own category or vis a vis General Castes‟ peoples and vice-versa. Objectives of the study are: to study the feeling of segregation among rural people in social and judicial areas.; to study the feelings of rural people about fair justice given to them; the feelings of uncertainty among general category and reserved category about their children‟s education, career and future; and also to study the feelings of insecurity among people of reserved categories with regard to income, justice, and safety. II. METHODOLOGY Two phases of survey has been designed for the present study. First, we have selected one village from the list of the villages procured from the Agra Tehsil by Lottery Method. Preliminary Survey of the selected village was carried out for getting basic information of the respondents. Out of a total 1333 households, a 14% sample consisting of 188 households were selected by simple random sampling. Structured Interview schedule, and observation were ABSTRACT: Alienation has been fundamental to a social system which is differentiated and segmental in nature. As a characteristic of modern industrial or post- industrial society, it is also present in rural society which has several roots. Although, the Government of India has done social engineering through the affirmative action, yet, its implications could not to some extent be kept on the right track. The present paper examines alienation among rural people, which has been caused as a result of inclusion policy.