The caste question : Dalits and the politics of modern India
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, tranformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2009
xxi, 392 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9780520255593, 9780520257610, 0520255593, 0520257618
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pt. 1. Caste radicalism and the making of a new political subject
The problem of caste property
Dalits as a political minority
pt. 2. The paradox of emancipation
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