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Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / Milind Wakankar.
Van Pelt Library BL2015.S6 W35 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakankar, Milind.
- Series:
- Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories.
- Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and social status--India--Historiography.
- Religion and social status.
- Dalits--Historiography.
- Dalits.
- Dalits--Social conditions.
- Dalits--Religious life.
- Historiography.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 202 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: The question of a prehistory
- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique
- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion
- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay
- The vicissitudes of historical religion
- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir
- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi
- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari
- The prehistory of historical religion
- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities
- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram
- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415778787
- 0415778786
- 9780203859650
- 0203859650
- OCLC:
- 311756185
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