Dalit Studies

by Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Book Overview

The 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. Moving 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361329
• ISBN13: 9780822361329
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"