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The caste question : Dalits and the politics of modern India / Anupama Rao.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rao, Anupama.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dalits--Political activity.
- Dalits.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative 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 as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Author'S Note
- Introduction
- Caste Radicalism And The Making Of A New Political Subject
- The Problem Of Caste Property
- Dalits As A Political Minority
- 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
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612360916
- 9781282360914
- 1282360914
- 9780520943377
- 0520943376
- OCLC:
- 609850117
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