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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rao, Anupama
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Paria.
Politieke aspecten.
Onaanraakbaren.
Kastenstelsel.
Politisches Handeln
Emanzipation
Kaste
Dalit
Politics and government
Dalits > Political activity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Intouchables > Activite politique.
India.
Indien
Maharashtra
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947-
India > Politics and government > 1947-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (416 pages).
ISBN:9780520943377

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