The Caste Question : Dalits and the Politics of Modern India
Anupama. Rao
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (416 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; PART 1. EMANCIPATIOIN; 1. Caste Radicalism and the Making of a New Political Subject; 2. The Problem of Caste Property; 3. Dalits as a Political Minority; PART 2. THE PARADOX OF EMANCIPATION; 4. Legislating Caste Atrocity; 5. New Directions in Dalit Politics; 6. The Sexual Politics of Caste; 7. Death of a Kotwal; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Index. - This 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
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| ISBN | 9780520255593. - 9780520257610
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