ISBN:
9788132111238
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (479 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Life as a Dalit : Views from the Bottom on Caste in India
DDC:
305.5/6880954
Keywords:
Dalits -- India
;
Caste-based discrimination -- India
;
Caste -- India
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned around the more acclaimed and accepted theories of caste society privileging the Brahmanical and textual interpretations of caste. It shows that those at the bottom have their own interpretations and follow a rationality that is tutored by their own life conditions and not what is fed to them from the top.These views from th
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Theorizing Marginality; 1 - The Caste System Upside Down; 2 - Atrocities and Segregation in an Urban Social Structure; 3 - Continuity and Change in "Ex-Untouchable" Community of South India; 4 - A Reading of "Untouchable": The Autobiography of an Indian Outcaste; 5 - On Being an Untouchable in India: A Materialist Perspective; 6 - Conversion of Upper Castes into Lower Castes: A Process of Asprashyeekaran; 7 - Dalits to Benefit from Globalization Lessons from the Past for the Present; Section II - Doing Fieldwork among the Dalits
Description / Table of Contents:
8 - Viewing Hierarchy from the Bottom Up9 - Becoming a Dhobi; Section III - Religion and Gender; 10 - Dancing the Goddess: Possession and Caste; 11- The Bible and Dalits; 12 - Rediscovering God: Iyothee Thassar and Emancipatory Buddhism; 13 - Religion, Social Space, and Identity: The Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Making of Cultural Boundaries in Twentieth Century Kerala; 14 - Dalit Women; 15 - Caste and Gender: Understanding Dynamics of Power and Violence; Section IV - Fighting the System: Dalit Responses to Oppression; 16 - Climax! The Encounter of Dalits and Hindus
Description / Table of Contents:
17 - Theyyam Myth: An Embodimentof Protest18 - Documenting Dissent; 19 - The Satnamis of Chhattisgarh; 20 - Does Replication Mean Consensus? Dissenting the Hegemony by "Untouchable" Scheduled Castes in Karnataka, South India; 21 - Reservations and New Caste Alliances in India; Conclusions; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
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