TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao, Anupama
TI  -     The caste question : Dalits and the politics of modern India 
SN  - 9788178243214
U1  - 305.5688 	 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New delhi
PB  - Permanent Black
KW  - India--Politics--Caste-- Dalits
N2  - his innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism
ER  -