Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India

ISBN-13: 9780367584283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Ashok K. Pankaj; Ajit K. Pandey

Opis

The changing nature of caste and Dalits has become a topic of increasing interest in India. This edited book is a collection of originally written chapters by eminent experts on the experiences of Dalits in India.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Dalits, Subalterns and Social Change in India  Part 2: Perspectives on Dalits as Subalterns  2. Dalits are not merely Subalterns: the need for a different perspective  3. Glimpses of Traditions For and Against Untouchability  Part 3: Constructing New Historiography  4. Dalit Memoirs: A New Source of Historiography  5. Subalternity and Popular Religion: Religiosity and Making of the Bhajans of Dharanidas  Part 4: Education as Liberator  6. Education and Dalit Liberation: Possibilities and Constraints  7. Socialization Experience of Doctoral Students in Indian Academia: Do Caste and Class Matter?  Part 5: Changing Socio-Cultural Space  8. Politics, Caste and Dalit Subalternity: Reflecting on the Modes of Engagement  9. Rural Dalit Women: Assertion for Change  10. Dalit Women in Uttar Pradesh: Experiencing Subalternity and Exclusion  Part 6: The Last Citizens of India  11. Manual Scavengers: Apathetic state and callous society  12. Dalits and Devdasi System: A Dignified Form of Sexual Slavery

O autorze

Ashok K. Pankaj is currently Director of the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. He specialises in law and political economy of development. His edited books include: Right to Work and Rural India: Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) (2012) and Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India (co-edited) (2014).

Ajit K. Pandey teaches Sociology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He specialises in sociological theory and research methodology. His recent books include New Directions in Sociological Theory: Disputes, Discourses and Orientations and Subalternity (2010), Exclusion and Social Change in India (co-edited) (2014).