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Dalit Studies

Contributor(s):

Editors: Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana

Material type: Text

Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet Permanent black 2017Description: 316 : PagesISBN:

9788178245119

Subject(s):

The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. The contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, Dalit Studies outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions

DDC classification:

305.5688 DAL.D

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of History Processing Center	Dept. of History	305.5688 DAL.D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		HIS13553

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