Dalit Studies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Rawat

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. The contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, Dalit Studies outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions. Contributors: D. Shyam Babu, Laura Brueck, Sambaiah Gundimeda, Gopal Guru, Rajkumar Hans, Chinnaiah Jangam, Surinder Jodhka, P. Sanal Mohan, Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374312
• Artikelnr.: 54673252

Autorenporträt

Ramnarayan S. Rawat is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India.    K. Satyanarayana is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at EFL University, Hyderabad, and the coeditor of two collections of Dalit writing from South India: From those Stubs, Steel Nibs Are Sprouting and No Alphabet in Sight.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Dalit Studies: New Perspectives on Indian History and Society
/ Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana  1
1. The Indian Nation in Its Egalitarian Conception / Gopul Guru  31
Part I. Probing the Historical
2. Colonial Archive versus Colonial Sociology: Writing Dalit History /
Ramnarayan S. Rawat  53
3. Social Space, Civil Society, and Dalit Agency in Twentieth-Century
Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan  74
4.  Dilemmas of Dalit Agendas: Political Subjugation and Self-Emancipation
in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam  104
5. Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History / Raj Kumar Hans  131
Part II. Probiing the Present
6. The Dalit Reconfiguration of Modernity: Citizens and Castes in the
Telugu Public Sphere / K. Satyanarayana  155
7. Questions of Representation in Dalit Critical Discourse: Premchand and
Dalit Feminism / Laura Brueck  180
8. Social Justice and the Question of Categorization of Scheduled Caste
Reservations: The Dandora Debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda 
202
9. Caste and Class among the Dalits / D. Shyam Babu  233
10. From Zaat to Qaum: Fluid Contours of the Ravi Dasi Indentity in Punjab
/ Surinder S. Jodhka  248
Bibliography  271
Contributors  293
Index  295