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Life as a Dalit : views from the bottom on caste in India / edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa, Joan P. Mencher.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dalits--India.
- Dalits.
- Caste-based discrimination--India.
- Caste-based discrimination.
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (479 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned around the more acclaimed and accepted theories of caste society privileging the Brahmanical and textual interpretations of caste. It shows that those at the bottom have their own interpretations and follow a rationality that is tutored by their own life conditions and not what is fed to them from the top. These views from the bottom are indicative of the way in which the oppressed live their lives, make critical judgments, and also stage protests, both symbolic and based on real violence against the oppressive system. The focus is more experiential and based on ground-level data-based chapters. It foregrounds the fact that history is created from the bottom of society as well as from the top and those at the bottom are their own agents and well aware of their subject positions.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Looking up at caste : discrimination in everyday life in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- Theorizing marginality
- The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher
- Atrocities and segregation in an urban social structure / Nandu Ram
- Continuity and change in "ex-untouchable" community of south India / Joan P. Mencher
- A reading of "untouchable : the autobiography of an Indian outcaste" / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- On being an untouchable in India : a materialist perspective / Joan P. Mencher
- Conversion of upper castes into lower castes : a process of asprashyeekaran / Shyamlal
- Dalits to benefit from globalisation lessons from the past for the present / A Ramaiah
- Doing fieldwork among the dalits
- Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up / Joan P. Mencher
- Becoming a dhobi / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- Religion and gender
- Dancing the goddess : possession and caste / Karin Kapadia
- The Bible and dalits / James Massey
- Rediscovering god Iyothee Thassar and emancipatory Buddhism / G. Aloysius
- Religion, social space and identity / P. Sanal Mohan
- Dalit women
- Dalit women in struggle : transforming pain into power / Ruth Manorama
- Dalit women : a critical appraisal
- Dalit women's lives
- Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Kalpana Kannabiran, Vasanth Kannabiran
- Fighting the system : dalit responses to opression
- Climax! : the encounter of Dalits and Hindus / Vasant Moon
- Theyyam myth : an embodiment of protest / J.J.Pallath
- Documenting dissent / Badri Narayan
- The satnamis of chhattisgarh / Saurabh Dube
- Dissenting the hegemony by scheduled castes in south India / G.K. Karanth
- Reservations and new caste alliances in India / Walter Fernandes
- Conclusions / Joan P. Mencher.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1802-2
- 81-321-1777-8
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