Rebels From the Mud Houses: Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar

ISBN-13: 9781138099555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str.

George Kunnath

Opis

This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement  and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.

O autorze

George Kunnath is Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interests include Marxist and Maoist guerrilla movements, caste and class relations, Dalit and Adivasi identity politics, development-conflict nexus, violence and research ethics.