{"product_id":"dalit-studies-9788178245119","title":"Dalit Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana (Eds.)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving beyond the anticolonialism\/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion at the center of Indian historiography. Several essays discuss the ways Dalits used the colonial courts and legislature to gain minority rights in the early twentieth century, while others highlight Dalit activism in social and religious spheres. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contributors also examine the struggle of contemporary middle-class Dalits to reconcile their caste and class, intercaste tensions among Sikhs, and the efforts by Dalit writers to challenge dominant constructions of secular and class-based citizenship while emphasizing the ongoing destructiveness of caste identity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, \u003cem\u003eDalit Studies\u003c\/em\u003e outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616504832151,"sku":"9788178245119","price":487.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788178245119.webp?v=1769294966","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dalit-studies-9788178245119","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}