P Sanal Mohan

Modernity of Slavery

Struggles Against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala

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Produktbeschreibung

Centring the questions of consciousness and interiority, this book challenges the stereotypes of historical writing on Dalits and Christianity. It highlights everyday experiences, such as break-up of families, torture, sufferings, and re-memorialization of these experiences by contemporary generations, and weaves in narratives of specific instances, events, and personalities. Offering nuanced and unprecedented use of fresh archival sources and historical ethnography, this book will be a tour de force for anyone interested in the journeys of Dalit consciousness, Christianity, and religious movements in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 148mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198099765
• ISBN-10: 0198099762
• Artikelnr.: 47868932

Autorenporträt

P. Sanal Mohan teaches at the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. His areas of research interest include colonial modernity, social movements and questions of identity, Dalit movements and Christianity in India.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Abbreviations
* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction
* 1: Colonial Transformations: Situating the Experience of Slave Castes
in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala
* 2: Discourses and Constructions of Slavery in Nineteenth-and
Twentieth-century Kerala
* 3: Discourses on Struggles against Inequalities: Dalit Movements in
the Early Twentieth-century
* 4: Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Imagining of Equality in
Twentieth-century Kerala
* 5: Memory and Experience: Discourses of Slavery
* 6: Conclusion History and the Making of Community
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author