Name: The Caste Question
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Author: Anupama Rao
ISBN: 9780520257610

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Publisher

University Of California Press

Author

Anupama Rao

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0520257618

ISBN13

9780520257610

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Synopsis "The Caste Question "

This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.

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