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Debrahmanising history : dominance and resistance in Indian society / Braj Ranjan Mani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mani, Braj Ranjan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dalits.
- Historiography.
- History.
- India--Civilization.
- India.
- Civilization.
- Dalits--History.
- Dalits--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 456 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2011.
- Contents:
- Historical roots of Brahmanic dominance and Shramanic resistance
- Buddhist India : against caste and Brahmanism
- Medieval Mukti movements of the subaltern saint-poets
- Colonialism, and birth of Vedic-Brahmanic Nationalism
- Phule's struggle against Brahmanical Colonialism
- Guru, Iyothee, Periyar, Acchutanand : different strategies, one goal
- Nationalist power politics, excluded masses and the Gandhi-Ambedkar debate
- Epilogue : institutionalised discrimination from the past to the 'Democratic' present.
- Notes:
- Reprinted in 2011. Originally published in 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-444) and index.
- ISBN:
- 8173046484
- 9788173046483
- 8173046409
- 9788173046407
- OCLC:
- 441755859
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