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The Caste Question : Dalits and the Politics of Modern India.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (416 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943377 0520943376 0520255593 9780520255593 0520257618 9780520257610 1282360914 9781282360914 9786612360916 6612360917 |