Modernity of Slavery
Subtitle: Struggles Against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780198099765
Subjects: Dalits; Kerala (india); India, social conditions
Description: This text pushes further the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed in this study by analysing the problems of Dalit identity in Kerala. The book is a product of interdisciplinary research based on new archival and ethnographic materials which contributes to debates on colonial modernity.