Dalit Journeys for Dignity : Religion, Freedom, and Caste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawat, Ramnarayan S.

Contributor:

Satyanarayana, K.

Sanal Mohan, P.

Series:

SUNY Series in Hindu Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

Examines the challenges and opportunities faced by Dalits in modern India.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

1 Introduction - On Dignity: A History of the Dalit Social and the Struggle Against Caste

Religion is Social: A Fraternity of Equals

Caste and the Curse of the Political

Dignity Enters the Indian Constitution

Moral Stamina: The Dalit Relationship with Democratic Politics

References

2 Recovering the Legacy of Nanchari, 1830-2018: Dalits, Conversion, and Christianity in South India

Nanchari's Story: A Tapestry of Mission Archives and Vernacular Texts

Nanchari in the LMS Archives

Nanchari in the SPG Archives

Nanchari in Vernacular Material

Nanchari through Oral Narratives: Unveiling Historical Memory

Defying Caste: Nanchari's Journey to Christianity

Acknowledgements

3 An Ethical Community of Equals: A Dalit History of the Sant-Mat Religion in Twentieth-Century North India

The Sant-mat: A Brief Conceptual History

Atam-Anubhav Gyan: Social and Ethical in Sant-mat

The Satguru and Aniconic Divinity: The Source of Human Dignity

The Rise of Raidas: A Modern Saint

The Sant-mat Ideology: Building a Relationship with Liberal Politics

4 Dalit Futures and Sexual Modernity in South India

Inside/Outside

Religion and Kinship in Normative Time

The Reproductive Capacities of Promiscuous Religion

5 Between Blasphemy and Martyrdom: The Formation of the Ravidassia Religion in Punjab

Ravidassia Countervisuality: Song and Sant Dignity

The Ad Prakash: The Book of the Ravidassia Religion

The Luminous Deras: Building a Community

The Temple of Ravidassia Religiosity

The Martyrdom and Public Protests

The Discourse of Martyrdom: Building a New Religion

Acknowledgements.

6 Oppression, Resistance, and the Formation of a Faith Community among the Dalit Christians of Kerala

Introduction

Karikkottakkari: An Overview of the Village

The Formation of a Faith Community

Faith versus Caste: Foundational Factors for a Dalit Christian Faith Community

Faith, Belovedness, and Resistance

The Purification of Learned Christianity and the Scope of a Beloved Community

Social Experience and Faith

7 Presenting the Dalit Body: Caste and Sartorial Dignity in North India

Sartorial Historiography

Sartorial Questions and Codes of Caste

Dignity, Desire, and Respect: The Freedom to Choose Clothing

8 Inheritance and Caste Formations in Kerala

Caste Inheritance and Racial Formations

Agrarian Histories of Caste: Inheriting the Traditional Occupation

Transformations

New Foundations

Leaving Agricultural Labour and Building New Houses

Thatch, Tile, Concrete

9 Caste, Occupations, and (Im)mobility in Modern Indian Industry, 1870-2006

Caste, Occupations, and Modern Industry

The Beginnings of Industrialisation, 1870s-1890s

The Textile Boom Period, 1910s-1940s

Textile Decline, 1950s-1990s

Textile Mill Closures, 2006

10 The Anti-Caste Hermeneutic: Iyothee Thassar and the Tamil Buddhist Past

Anti-Caste Interpretations of Temporality

Gulamgiri (1873) and Indhirar Dhesa (1912)

A Comparative Textualising of History

Naming Casteless Spaces in Time

Caste and Deception

Caste and Abduction

Civilisational Memory and the Buddhist Hermeneutic

Tamil Buddhism Against Anti-Knowledge

Conclusion

Note on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798855802634

OCLC:

1512319345