Writing Dalit History and Other Essays - Hardcover
- PublisherRaj Publication
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8173918805
- ISBN 13 9788173918803
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages233
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Writing Dalit History and Other Essays
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Kanishka, New Delhi
(2007)
ISBN 10: 8173918805
ISBN 13: 9788173918803
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Book Description Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Writing Dalit history a note on missionary sources. 2. Dalit education and identity formation. 3. The world of Untouchables a study of Vemana. 4. Dalit politics ideology and consciousness. 5. Aspects of Dalit culture. 6. Change and continuity in nomenclature. 7. Sub caste consciousness and submerged realities. 8. Sub subaltern perspective of alternative strategies for the societal development. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. The history of these untouchables has yet become a part of Indian historiography though the study is of immense relevance and significance on account of the inherent radical democratic identity of their movement and their role as productive communities. Available scholarship on these oppressed communities suffers from lack of historical and written documentation. As a result attempts towards historically locating untouchables are impeded by an acute shortage of direct evidence about the realities of Dalit social life. Recent initiatives to reconstruct Dalit history generally draws from traditional historical sources like archival material reports of census commissions committees and gazetteers. Biographical and autobiographical writings of Dalit organic intellectuals do exist as also literature in the form of poems novels dramas contemporary press reports and caste association activities though in the vernacular. The essays in this volume have mainly drawn from these sources. 222 pp. Seller Inventory # 62151
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