ISBN:
9780520943377
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (416 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5/688
Keywords:
Dalits Political activity
;
Dalits - Political activity
;
Electronic books
;
India Politics and government 1947-
Abstract:
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 as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Abstract:
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.
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