Deceptive Majority: dalits, Hinduism and underground religion
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- 9781108826662
- 305.568809542 LEE
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305.56880954 MOC Dalit Christians In South india: caste, ideology and lived religion | 305.56880954 REG Writing caste / writing gender: reading dalit women's testimonios | 305.56880954 SEN Making of village: the dynamics of adivasi rural life in India | 305.568809542 LEE Deceptive Majority: dalits, Hinduism and underground religion | 305.568809542 NAR Women heroes and dalit assertion in North India: culture, identity and politics | 305.568809542 NAR Women heroes and dalit assertion in North India: culture, identity and politics | 305.5688095483 PAN Caste in Kerala |
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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