The Caste Question : Dalits and the Politics of Modern India.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rao, Anupama
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Temas:
Since 1947
Dalits > Political activity.
Intouchables > Activité politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Dalits > Political activity
Politics and government
Dalit
Kaste
Emanzipation
Politisches Handeln
Kastenstelsel.
Onaanraakbaren.
Politieke aspecten.
Paria.
India > Politics and government > 1947-
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947-
India
Maharashtra
Indien
India.
caste discrimination.
caste property.
caste radicalism.
caste.
citizens.
colonial liberalism.
colonialism.
dalits.
democracy.
equality.
ethnography.
ex untouchables.
historical anthropology.
human condition.
india.
indian culture.
indian democracy.
indian society.
new political subject.
personhood.
persons without rights.
political minority.
political.
postcolonialism.
regulating caste.
rights.
sexual politics.
south asian historiography.
south asian history.
stigmatization.
untouchables.
violence.
western india.
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.

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