Claiming Power from Below Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India

by Bhagavan, Manu; Feldhaus, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780195693041
• ISBN10: 0195693043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume investigates issues like identity politics, culture and literature, gender, education and oppression. In interrogating power in this way, the volume seeks to recover the histories and voices of those from below.

Author Biography

Manu Bhagavan is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hunter College-CUNY
Anne Feldhaus is Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Who is the Dalit? The Emergence of a New Political Subject	p. 11
The Making of a Dalit Perspective: The 1940s and the Chamars of Uttar Pradesh	p. 28
Multiple Identities of Backward-caste Muslims in India	p. 41
B.R. Ambedkar's Thought on Economic Development	p. 58
Colonial Oppression of the Peasantry in the Bombay Presidency	p. 75
Educating Artisans as Colonial Modernity: Industrial Education in Late Nineteenth-century Western India	p. 84
Bey Eka Bey, Bey Doni Char (Two Times One is Two, Two Times Two is Four): Dalit Women's Schooling	p. 101
Bodies in Pain: A People's History of 1971	p. 117
Cataracts of Silence: Race on the Edge of Indian Thought	p. 133
Mainstreaming Marginalized Voices: The Dalit Lekhak Sangh and the Negotiations over Hindi Dalit Literature	p. 151
Representations of Dalit Women: Translating Urmila Pawar's Short Stories	p. 166
Namdeo Dhasal: The Maverick Dalit Poet who Changed Marathi Poetry	p. 179
The Paradoxes of Dalit Cultural Politics	p. 189
Art of Pariahs	p. 208
Appendix: Published Writings of Eleanor Zelliot	p. 211
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