Claiming Power from Below Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India
by Bhagavan, Manu; Feldhaus, AnneFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-11-30
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Together with its companion, Speaking Truth to Power, this volume explores various issues such as social hierarchy and reform, the role of religion, the idea of resistance, the functionality of the continued use of the term, 'Dalit', and the scope of current and future Dalit literature. Thisbook investigates a wide variety of issues related to the Dalit politics and literature. Using case studies from different regions and sectors, this volume investigates issues concerning Dalit politics and literature.
Author Biography
Manu Bhagavan is Associate Professor, Department of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY. Anne Feldhaus is Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Who is the Dalit? The Emergence of a New Political Subject | p. 11 |
| The Making of a Dalit Perspective: The 1940s and the Chamars of Uttar Pradesh | p. 28 |
| Multiple Identities of Backward-caste Muslims in India | p. 41 |
| B.R. Ambedkar's Thought on Economic Development | p. 58 |
| Colonial Oppression of the Peasantry in the Bombay Presidency | p. 75 |
| Educating Artisans as Colonial Modernity: Industrial Education in Late Nineteenth-century Western India | p. 84 |
| Bey Eka Bey, Bey Doni Char (Two Times One is Two, Two Times Two is Four): Dalit Women's Schooling | p. 101 |
| Bodies in Pain: A People's History of 1971 | p. 117 |
| Cataracts of Silence: Race on the Edge of Indian Thought | p. 133 |
| Mainstreaming Marginalized Voices: The Dalit Lekhak Sangh and the Negotiations over Hindi Dalit Literature | p. 151 |
| Representations of Dalit Women: Translating Urmila Pawar's Short Stories | p. 166 |
| Namdeo Dhasal: The Maverick Dalit Poet who Changed Marathi Poetry | p. 179 |
| The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics | p. 189 |
| Art of Pariahs | p. 208 |
| Appendix: Published Writings of Eleanor Zelliot | p. 211 |
| Contributors | p. 221 |
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