The caste question
Subtitle: Dalits and the politics of modern India
By: Anupama Rao.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780520255593; 9780520257610
Subjects: Dalits -- Political activity; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Description: This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, tranformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : emancipation; title: Caste radicalism and the making of a new politicals subject; title: The problem of caste property; title: Dalits as political minority; title: Part two : paradox of emancipation; title: Legislating caste atrocity; title: New directions in Dalit politics : Maharashtra, 1960-1979; title: The sexual politics of caste; title: Death of a Kotwal : the violence of recognition; title: Epilogue : Dalit futures.