Dalit studies

Dalit studies / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, editors.

The academic field of Dalit studies is relatively new, emerging since the 1990s in South Asia and in diasporic communities. Dalit intellectuals theorize Indian historiography and social sciences through the lenses of humiliation and dignity, pointing to the painful history of Dalit groups (formerly...

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Other Authors: Rawat, Ramnarayan S. (Editor), Satyanarayana, K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Dalits > India.
Caste > India.
Anthropology.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Caste
Dalits
Kaste
Dalit
India
Indien
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dalit studies: new perspectives on Indian history and society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana
  • The Indian Nation in its egalitarian conception / Gopal Guru
  • Probing the historical
  • Colonial archive versus colonial sociology: writing Dalit history / Ramnarayan S. Rawat
  • Social space, civil society, and Dalit agency in twentieth-century Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan
  • Dilemmas of Dalit agendas: political subjugation and self-emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam
  • Making sense of Dalit sikh history / Raj Kumar Hans
  • Probing the present
  • The Dalit reconfiguration of modernity: citizens and castes in the Telugu public sphere / K. Satyanarayana
  • Questions of representation in Dalit critical discourse: Premchand and Dalit feminism / Laura Brueck
  • Social justice and the question of categorization of scheduled caste reservations: the Dandora debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda
  • Caste and class among the Dalits / Shyam Babu
  • From Zaat to Qaum: fluid contours of the Ravi Dasi identity in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka.

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