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Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / Milind Wakankar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakankar, Milind, author.
- Series:
- Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
- Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and social status--India--Historiography.
- Religion and social status.
- Dalits--Historiography.
- Dalits.
- Dalits--Social conditions.
- Dalits--Religious life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings together studies of Hindu devotionalism with issues of religious violence. Drawing on the arguments of Partha Chatterjee, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, the author demonstrates that Indian democracy, and indeed postcolonial democracies in general, do not always adhere to Enlighte
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part I Introduction: The question of a prehistory; 1 Subalternity at the cusp: Limits and openings of the dalit critique; 2 Moral rite before myth and law: Death in comparative religion; 3 The time of having-found (God): Languages of dalit hearsay; Part II The vicissitudes of historical religion; 4 The anomaly of Kabir: Historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir (1942); 5 The pitfalls of a dalit theology: Dr. Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi (1997); 6 System and history in Rajwade's "Grammar" for the Dnyaneswari (1909)
- Part III The prehistory of historical religion7 The suspension of iconoclasm: Myth and allegory in the time of deities; 8 Miracle and violence: The allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, Tukaram; 9 Deity and daivat: The antiquity of light in Tukaram; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-16654-4
- 1-135-16655-2
- 1-282-57179-6
- 9786612571794
- 0-203-85965-0
- 9780203859650
- OCLC:
- 609856160
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