"Dalit assertion in society, literature and history / edited by Imtiaz Ahmad and Sashi Bhushan Upadhyay"

By:

"Ahmad, Imtiaz (ed.)"

Contributor(s):

Upadhyay, Shashi Bhushan (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; Orient Blackswan; 2010Description: 320pISBN:

9788125040545

Subject(s):

Dalits-India-History

DDC classification:

305.56 DAL

Summary: This rich and extraordinary volume brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities and social sciences to provide an incisive analysis of the identity of the Dalits in history, literature and society. The essays organised in four thematic clusters, raise crucial questions: Who is a Dalit? Are Dalits a social or sociological category and what is their relationship with the mainstream? How are women represented among the Dalits? Can a Muslim be a Dalit? Can the Dalits form a unitary, socio-political category? Concerned and cognizant of the collective trauma and memory of centuries of unspeakable oppression, the essays in this volume focus on Dalit assertion and agency in postcolonial India, their challenge of the bigotry and prejudice of the dominant castes and their quest to break free from poverty and social exclusion. They also examine the dynamics of a pervasive caste system that is intrinsically hostile to the growth of a collective consciousness among the backward classes. Lucid and authoritative, the volume is an important contribution to the growing discipline of caste studies.

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This rich and extraordinary volume brings together contributions from scholars across the humanities and social sciences to provide an incisive analysis of the identity of the Dalits in history, literature and society. The essays organised in four thematic clusters, raise crucial questions: Who is a Dalit? Are Dalits a social or sociological category and what is their relationship with the mainstream? How are women represented among the Dalits? Can a Muslim be a Dalit? Can the Dalits form a unitary, socio-political category?

Concerned and cognizant of the collective trauma and memory of centuries of unspeakable oppression, the essays in this volume focus on Dalit assertion and agency in postcolonial India, their challenge of the bigotry and prejudice of the dominant castes and their quest to break free from poverty and social exclusion. They also examine the dynamics of a pervasive caste system that is intrinsically hostile to the growth of a collective consciousness among the backward classes.

Lucid and authoritative, the volume is an important contribution to the growing discipline of caste studies.

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