The caste question [[electronic resource] ] : Dalits and the politics of modern India / / Anupama Rao

• Autore: Rao Anupama
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/688
• Soggetto topico: Dalits - Political activity
• Soggetto geografico: India Politics and government 1947-
• Soggetto non controllato: caste discrimination; caste property; caste radicalism; caste; citizens; colonial liberalism; colonialism; dalits; democracy; equality; ethnography; ex untouchables; historical anthropology; human condition; india; indian culture; indian democracy; indian society; new political subject; personhood; persons without rights; political minority; political; postcolonialism; regulating caste; rights; sexual politics; south asian historiography; south asian history; stigmatization; untouchables; violence; western india
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The caste question
• ISBN: 1-282-36091-4; 9786612360916; 0-520-94337-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778403003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II