Life as a Dalit : views from the bottom on caste in India /

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Imprint:Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2013.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210328
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Other authors / contributors:Channa, Subhadra, 1951- editor.
ISBN:9788132117773
8132117778
9788132111238
8132111230
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned around the more acclaimed and accepted theories of caste society privileging the Brahmanical and textual interpretations of caste. It shows that those at the bottom have their own interpretations and follow a rationality that is tutored by their own life conditions and not what is fed to them from the top. These views from th.
Other form:Print version: Life as a Dalit 9788132111238