Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780822374312
Content:
The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography recover the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination by focusing on the importance of humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion to Dalit emancipatory politics.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Dalit Studies: New Perspectives on Indian History and Society -- 1. The Indian Nation in Its Egalitarian Conception -- Part I. Probing the Historical -- 2. Colonial Archive versus Colonial Sociology: Writing Dalit History -- 3. Social Space, Civil Society, and Dalit Agency in Twentieth-Century Kerala -- 4. Dilemmas of Dalit Agendas: Political Subjugation and Self-Emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 -- 5. Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History -- Part II. Probing the Present -- 6. The Dalit Reconfiguration of Modernity: Citizens and Castes in the Telugu Public Sphere -- 7. Questions of Representation in Dalit Critical Discourse: Premchand and Dalit Feminism -- 8. Social Justice and the Question of Categorization of Scheduled Caste Reservations: The Dandora Debate in Andhra Pradesh -- 9. Caste and Class among the Dalits -- 10. From Zaat to Qaum: Fluid Contours of the Ravi Dasi Identity in Punjab -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822361138
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822361138
Language:
English
