Subalternity and religion
Subtitle: the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia
By: Milind Wakankar.
Series: Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415778787; 9780203859650
Subjects: Religion and social status -- India -- Historiography; Dalits -- Historiography; Dalits -- Social conditions; Dalits -- Religious life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: The question of a prehistory; title: Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique; title: Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion; title: The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay; title: The vicissitudes of historical religion; title: The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir; title: The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi; title: System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari; title: The prehistory of historical religion; title: The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities; title: Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram; title: Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.