Title: Dalit studies /
Authors: Rawat, Ramnarayan S.,; Satyanarayana, K.
Year: 2016
Subjects: Dalits India; Caste India.; Caste; Dalits; History; South Asian studies.; India
Abstract: Analyzes the role of Dalits (formerly untouchables) in shaping modern India, including discourse about caste, and interrogates the dominant narratives that have been used to represent India's history. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Contents: Dalit studies: new perspectives on Indian history and society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana -- The Indian Nation in its egalitarian conception / Gopal Guru -- Probing the historical -- Colonial archive versus colonial sociology: writing Dalit history / Ramnarayan S. Rawat -- Social space, civil society, and Dalit agency in twentieth-century Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan -- Dilemmas of Dalit agendas: political subjugation and self-emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam -- Making sense of Dalit sikh history / Raj Kumar Hans -- Probing the present -- The Dalit reconfiguration of modernity: citizens and castes in the Telugu public sphere / K. Satyanarayana -- Questions of representation in Dalit critical discourse: Premchand and Dalit feminism / Laura Brueck -- Social justice and the question of categorization of scheduled caste reservations: the Dandora debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda -- Caste and class among the Dalits / Shyam Babu -- From Zaat to Qaum: fluid contours of the Ravi Dasi identity in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka.