ISBN:
9780520943377
,
0520943376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 392 Seiten)
Keywords:
Dalit
;
Politisches Handeln
;
Dalits Political activity
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.
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp88k
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