The caste question : Dalits and the politics of modern India

The caste question : Dalits and the politics of modern India / Anupama Rao.

This 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. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shows h...

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Main Author: Rao, Anupama
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Dalits > Political activity.
India > Politics and government > 1947-
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Caste radicalism and the making of a new political subject
  • The problem of caste property
  • Dalits as a political minority
  • Pt. 2. The paradox of emancipation
  • Legislating caste atrocity
  • New directions in Dalit politics : symbologies of violence, Maharashtra, 1960-1979
  • The sexual politics of caste : violence and the ritual-archaic
  • Death of a kotwal : the violence of recognition
  • Epilogue : Dalit futures.

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