Deceptive Majority: dalits, Hinduism and underground religion (Record no. 345222)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781108826662
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.568809542
Item number LEE
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Personal name Lee, Joel
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Title Deceptive Majority: dalits, Hinduism and underground religion
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 335p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia. Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian projects are both advanced and undermined.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political sociology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Religion
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2021-08-11 1 305.568809542 LEE 162410 2024-06-08 2022-12-07 2021-08-11 Books

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