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Format:
Paperback
232 pp.
140 mm x 215 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198063483

Publication date:
July 2009

Imprint: OUP India

Claiming Power from Below

Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India

Edited by Manu Bhagavan and Anne Feldhaus

Together with its companion, Speaking Truth to Power, this volume explores various issues such as social hierarchy and reform, the role of religion, the idea of resistance, the functionality of the continued use of the term, 'Dalit', and the scope of current and future Dalit literature. This book investigates a wide variety of issues related to the Dalit politics and literature. Using case studies from different regions and sectors, this volume investigates issues concerning Dalit politics and literature.

Readership : These companion volumes will be indispensable for students, teachers, and scholars of Dalit and Third World studies.

Introduction
1. Anupama Rao: Who is the Dalit? The Emergence of a New Political Subject
2. Ramnarayan S. Rawat: The Making of a Dalit Perspective: The 1940s and the Chamars of Uttar Pradesh
3. Rajendra Vora: Multiple Identities of Backward-caste Muslims in India
4. Sukhadeo Thorat: B.R. Ambedkar's Thought on Economic Development
5. Mani Kamerkar: Colonial Oppression of the Peasantry in the Bombay Presidency
6. Abigail McGowan: Educating Artisans as Colonial Modernity: Industrial Education in Late Nineteenth-century Western India
7. Shailaja Paik: Bey Eka Bey, Bey Doni Char (Two times one is two, two times two is four): Dalit Women's Schooling
8. Yasmin Saikia: Bodies in Pain: A People's History of 1971
9. Vijay Prashad: Cataracts of Silence: Race on the Edge of Indian Thought
10. Laura R. Brueck: Mainstreaming Marginalized Voices: the Dalit Lekhak Sangh and the Negotiations over Hindi Dalit Literature
11. Veena Deo: Representations of Dalit Women: Translating Urmila Pawar's Short Stories
12. Dilip Chitre: Namdeo Dhasal: The Maverick Dalit Poet who Changed Marathi Poetry
13. Bali Sahota: The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics
14. Meena Alexander: Art of Pariahs
Appendix
Contributors

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Manu Bhagavan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY. Anne Feldhaus is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Ambedkar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion - Sukhadeo Thorat and Narender Kumar
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones

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