Concealing Caste

Author : Kusuma Satyanarayanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192688820
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Concealing Caste written by Kusuma Satyanarayanan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived by others as 'high caste.' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autobiographical essays in this volume reveal the inner workings of a vicious social order, illuminating the contradictions of caste hierarchy through the experience of those who clandestinely transgress its boundaries. Concealing Caste is the first collection of Dalit writings focused on this public secret. Bringing together Dalit literature from Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English and Malayalam-including stories and essays never before translated-this landmark anthology illustrates the agonizing choices and at times devastating consequences faced by Dalits who experiment with identity in a society shot through with the principle of birth-based inequality.

Author : Kusuma Satyanarayanan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192865243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Concealing Caste written by Kusuma Satyanarayanan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived by others as 'high caste.' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autobiographical essays in this volume reveal the inner workings of a vicious social order, illuminating the contradictions of caste hierarchy through the experience of those who clandestinely transgress its boundaries. Concealing Caste is the first collection of Dalit writings focused on this public secret. Bringing together Dalit literature from Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English and Malayalam-including stories and essays never before translated-this landmark anthology illustrates the agonizing choices and at times devastating consequences faced by Dalits who experiment with identity in a society shot through with the principle of birth-based inequality.

Author : Revd Dr Keith Hebden
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409481476
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dalit Theology and Christian Anarchism written by Revd Dr Keith Hebden and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second generation of emerging Dalit theology texts is re-shaping the way we think of Indian theology and liberation theology. This book is a vital part of that conversation. Taking post-colonial criticism to its logical end of criticism of statism, Keith Hebden looks at the way the emergence of India as a nation state shapes political and religious ideas. He takes a critical look at these Gods of the modern age and asks how Christians from marginalised communities might resist the temptation to be co-opted into the statist ideologies and competition for power. He does this by drawing on historical trends, Christian anarchist voices, and the religious experiences of indigenous Indians. Hebden's ability to bring together such different and challenging perspectives opens up radical new thinking in Dalit theology, inviting the Indian Church to resist the Hindu fundamentalists labelling of the Church as foreign by embracing and celebrating the anarchic foreignness of a Dalit Christian future.

Author : Yashica Dutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789388292405
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book COMING OUT AS DALIT. written by Yashica Dutt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Er. Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : REDSHINE Publication
ISBN 13 : 8119070372
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book LIFE AND IDEOLOGY OF JAGJIVAN RAM written by Er. Rajendra Prasad and published by REDSHINE Publication. This book was released on with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly work stands as another remarkable addition to the existing literature on the life and struggles of Babu Jagjivan Ram, authored by Er. Rajendra Prasad. Through his insightful writings, Rajendra Prasad has illuminated hitherto untold facets of Babuji, presenting a comprehensive and profound understanding of his persona. This book is an integral part of a series of works dedicated to exploring the multifaceted journey of Babu Jagjivan Ram, weaving together significant links that shed light on his impactful legacy.

Author : Eve Rebecca Parker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450084
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India written by Eve Rebecca Parker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theologising with the Sacred ‘Prostitutes’ of South India, Eve Rebecca Parker theologises with the Dalit women who from childhood have been dedicated to village goddesses and used as ‘sacred’ sex workers.

Author : Sam Hickey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317983009
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Government of Chronic Poverty written by Sam Hickey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the underlying causes of chronic poverty? Can ‘development beyond neoliberalism’ offer the strategies required to challenge such persistent forms of poverty, particularly through efforts to promote citizenship amongst poor people? Drawing on case-study evidence from Africa, Latin America and South Asia, the contributions critically examine different attempts to ‘govern’ chronic poverty via the promotion of particular forms and notions of citizenship, with a specific focus on the role of community-based approaches, social policy and social movements. Poverty is seen here as deriving from underlying patterns of uneven development, involving processes of capitalism and state formation that foster inequality-generating mechanisms and particularly disadvantaged social categories. Sceptics tend to deride the emphasis under current ‘inclusive’ forms of Liberalism on tackling poverty through the promotion of citizenship as inevitably depoliticising and disempowering for poor people, and our cases do suggest that citizenship-based strategies rarely alter the underlying basis of poverty. However, our evidence also offers some support to those optimists who suggest that progressive moves towards poverty reduction and citizenship formation have become more rather than less likely at the current juncture. The promotion of citizenship emerges here as a significant but incomplete effort to challenge poverty that persists over time. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Author : Kaveri Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088098
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Of Poverty and Plastic written by Kaveri Gill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste recovery and plastic recycling economy of Delhi. A detailed analysis of specialization, capital, and value in various segments of this labour-intensive, 'green' informal market is undertaken, with explicit recognition of its wider social and political institutional context, and how it is shaped by unequal interactions with civil society and the state. In particular, the book focuses on the identity and agency of subordinate scheduled caste groups—living literally and metaphorically on the edge of the city—in negotiating 'a decent life' in today's neoliberal environment. The case studies of the ban on recycled polythene bags and the industrial relocation order illustrate the channels through which these actors collectively seek to resist the perceived anti-urban poor status quo, driven by powerful middle class coalitions through legislation or judicial fiat, with varying degrees of success. In doing so, the book exposes the complex, and at times contrary, policy reality binding poverty and deprivation, formal and informal markets, the state and citizenship in contemporary urban India.

Author : Joshil K. Abraham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317408802
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dalit Literatures in India written by Joshil K. Abraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit Literature, including in its corpus, a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories as well as graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, it critically examines Dalit literary theory and initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western literary theory.

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691088950
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Castes of Mind written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.