Joel Lee

Deceptive Majority

Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an ethnographic history of religious majoritarianism and its sly subversion by one of India's most oppressed minorities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 196mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108843829
• ISBN-10: 1108843824
• Artikelnr.: 60554290

Autorenporträt

Joel Lee teaches and conducts research on religion, language, caste and the state in South Asia. In particular his work concerns the ways in which Dalits - those communities historically stigmatized as 'untouchable' - combat structural deprivation, navigate the politics of religious majoritarianism, and contend with the sensory and environmental entailments of sanitation labor in colonial and postcolonial India. His research and teaching interests also include linguistic anthropology, semiotics, popular Hinduism and Islam, and Urdu and Hindi literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Untouchability and Alterity, Now and Then: 1. Introduction: Signs,
the Census, and the Sanitation Labor Castes; 2. Lal Beg N¿ma: Dalit
Religion before the Hindu Majority; Part II. Making 'Untouchables' Hindu,
or, the Great Interpellation: 3. Missionary Majoritarianism: The Arya Samaj
and the Struggle with Disgust; 4. Trustee Majoritarianism: Gandhi and the
Harijan Sevak Sangh; 5. Hinduization and its Discontents: Valmiki comes to
Lucknow; Part III. Semiotics of the Oppressed: 6. Victory to Valmiki:
Declamatory Religion and the Wages of Inclusion; 7. Lal Beg Underground:
Taqiyya, Ethical Secrecy, and the Pleasure of Dissimulation; Epilogue.