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020			_a9780198078319
082			_a305.0954 GUR
100			_aGuru, Gopal.
245		0	_aCracked mirror: an Indian debate on experienced and theory
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bOxford
260			_c2013
300			_a248p.
520			_aThis volume explores the relationship between experience and theory in Indian social sciences in the form of a dialogue. It focuses on questions of Dalit experience and untouchability. While Gopal Guru argues that only those who have lived lives as subalterns can represent them accurately, Sundar Sarukkai feels that people located outside the community can also represent them. Thematically divided into five sections, the first discusses the problems associated with theory in the social sciences in the Indian context. The next makes inquiries into the nature of personal and collective experience. The third explores the larger connection between ethics and theory in India, both in the natural and social sciences. The fourth examines the ontological and epistemological nature of experience itself and the politics of experience, and the last focuses on the experience and theory of experience in India. The authors invoke the image of a cracked mirror to suggest a more complex and distorted relation between experience and theory. This book will interest scholars, researchers, and students of Dalit studies, subaltern studies, and politics.
650			_aSocial ethics; Equality
700			_aSarukkai, Sundar.
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