03152nam 2200601Ia 450 991045481880332120200520144314.01-282-36091-497866123609160-520-94337-610.1525/9780520943377(CKB)1000000000811837(EBL)470970(OCoLC)609850117(SSID)ssj0000291029(PQKBManifestationID)11211151(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000291029(PQKBWorkID)10246828(PQKB)10479173(MiAaPQ)EBC470970(OCoLC)646846879(MdBmJHUP)muse30923(DE-B1597)519050(DE-B1597)9780520943377(EXLCZ)99100000000081183720090130d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe caste question[electronic resource] Dalits and the politics of modern India /Anupama RaoBerkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (416 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-25761-8 0-520-25559-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --Author'S Note --Introduction --Caste Radicalism And The Making Of A New Political Subject --The Problem Of Caste Property --Dalits As A Political Minority --Legislating Caste Atrocity --New Directions In Dalit Politics Symbologies Of Violence, Maharashtra, 1960-1979 --The Sexual Politics Of Caste Violence And The Ritual Archaic --Death Of A Kotwal The Violence Of Recognition --Epilogue Dalit Futures --Abbreviations --Notes --IndexThis 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 as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.DalitsPolitical activityIndiaPolitics and government1947-Electronic books.DalitsPolitical activity.305.5/688Rao Anupama1022929MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454818803321The caste question2452541UNINA