The Dalit movement in India : local practices, global connections / Eva-Maria Hardtmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardtmann, Eva-Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dalits--Political activity--India.

Dalits.

Dalits--Political activity.

Religion.

India.

Dalits--India--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Dalits--India--Religion.

Physical Description:

xiv, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This work traces new 'practices' and discourses among Dalit activists since the 1990s and shows how these practices both shaped and changed social relations. It is an anthropological attempt to reach behind the surface of the contemporary Dalit movement. It discusses the kind of discourses found among Dalit activists; the organizational structure of the movement; local practices among activists, among others. This study also relates the method of anthropological fieldwork to theories about social movements. It offers a historical context as a prerequisite to understanding processes in the contemporary Dalit movement focus on the heterogeneity and the geographical spread of the contemporary Dalit movement. The fieldwork moves from a small locality of Dalits in Lucknow to interaction with Davit activists in Maharashtra to the life of Punjabi Dalit migrants in Birmingham.

Contents:

Follow the field: fieldwork methods in a social movement

Traditions of protest

Movement perspectives: Dalit discourses across the country

Dalit activities in Lucknow: Buddhism and party politics in local practice

A transnational Dalit counterpublic: the example of Ambedkarites in Britain

Translating 'caste discrimination' into an international discourse

Dalit feminism in a neoliberal world

Dynamics of diversity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780195697841

0195697847

OCLC:

263294282

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