The Caste Question Dalits and the Politics of Modern India.

By:

Rao, Anupama [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520943377

Subject(s):

Dalits -- Political activity

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

DS422 .C378 2009

Online resources:

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Subject: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	DS422.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn609850117

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Introduction; PART 1. EMANCIPATIOIN; 1. Caste Radicalism and the Making of a New Political Subject; 2. The Problem of Caste Property; 3. Dalits as a Political Minority; PART 2. THE PARADOX OF EMANCIPATION; 4. Legislating Caste Atrocity; 5. New Directions in Dalit Politics; 6. The Sexual Politics of Caste; 7. Death of a Kotwal; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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.

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