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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.