Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge) - Softcover

Narayan, Badri

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9780761935377: Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge)

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ISBN 10: 0761935371 ISBN 13: 9780761935377

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

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This is the fifth volume in the series Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge and explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The author shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati.

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About the Author:

Badri Narayan is a social historian and cultural anthropologist and currently lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His interests lie in popular culture, social and anthropological history, Dalit and subaltern issues and the relationship between power and culture. He has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998–99). The Indian Council of Social Science Research (1995) and the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (1989–93). He has also been Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands (2002) and HGIS Fellow at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (2001). He was a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004–5) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2005–6). Besides having written a number of articles both in English and in Hindi, he has authored Documenting Dissent: Contesting Fables, Contested Memories and Dalit Political Discourse (2001) and edited (with A.R. Misra) Multiple Marginalities: An Anthology of Identified Dalit Wrintings (2004).

Review:

The community-wise examination of the evolution of Dalit consciousness in UP...makes this well-researched and elucidated tome so valuable. Author: The Tribune

Rising assertiveness of Dalit castes is widespread today and this book offers valuable insights, which help in understanding this phenomenon. Author: The Telegraph

The slim volume embraces a surprisingly wide range of issues that can serve as potential entry points to a nuanced exploration of the categories of culture, identities, community codes and nationhood.... Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India examines intricate academic issues with an assumed ease.

Author: Contributions to Indian Sociology

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