The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India
Цена 26.67 - 34.40 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780520257610, 9780520257610
Автор
Anupama Rao
Издатель
University of California Press
Страниц
414
Год выпуска
2009
Форма выпуска
150x230
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India"s Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao"s far-reaching account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a powerful light on South Asian historiography, both popular and academic, and on ongoing caste discrimination to show how ostracized persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of organizing terms of colonial liberalism, such as "rights," "equality," and "personhood."