LEADER 03763nam 22004573a 450 001 9910831864403321 005 20250322110035.0 010 $a9781478091196 010 $a1478091193 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374312 035 $a(CKB)4950000000290256 035 $a(OCoLC)1048739169 035 $a(ScCtBLL)2a9cf7f3-2818-429c-a2a8-00580b479c2e 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010711174 035 $a(DE-B1597)732981 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478091196 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000290256 100 $a20211214i20162017 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDalit Studies$fRamnarayan S. Rawat, K. Satyanarayana 210 1$aDurham NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION Dalit Studies: New Perspectives on Indian History and Society -- $t1 The Indian Nation in Its Egalitarian Conception -- $tPart I. Probing the Historical -- $t2 Colonial Archive versus Colonial Sociology: Writing Dalit History -- $t3 Social Space, Civil Society, and Dalit Agency in Twentieth-Century Kerala -- $t4 Dilemmas of Dalit Agendas: Political Subjugation and Self-Emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910?50 -- $t5 Making Sense of Dalit Sikh History -- $tPart II. Probing the Present -- $t6 The Dalit Reconfiguration of Modernity: Citizens and Castes in the Telugu Public Sphere -- $t7 Questions of Representation in Dalit Critical Discourse: Premchand and Dalit Feminism -- $t8 Social Justice and the Question of Categorization of Scheduled Caste Reservations: The Dandora Debate in Andhra Pradesh -- $t9 Caste and Class among the Dalits -- $t10 From Zaat to Qaum: Fluid Contours of the Ravi Dasi Identity in Punjab -- $tBibliography -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aThe contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. The contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, Dalit Studies outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions. Contributors: D. Shyam Babu, Laura Brueck, Sambaiah Gundimeda, Gopal Guru, Rajkumar Hans, Chinnaiah Jangam, Surinder Jodhka, P. Sanal Mohan, Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana 606 $aHistory / Asia / India & South Asia$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Asia / India & South Asia 615 0$aHistory. 686 $aLB 45385$2rvk 702 $aRawat$b Ramnarayan S. 702 $aSatyanarayana$b K. 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831864403321 996 $aDalit studies$91923943 997 $aUNINA