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| Other authors / contributors: | Rawat, Ramnarayan S., editor.
Satyanarayana, K., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781478091196
1478091193
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 13, 2022).
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| Summary: | The academic field of Dalit studies is relatively new, emerging since the 1990s in South Asia and in diasporic communities. Dalit intellectuals theorize Indian historiography and social sciences through the lenses of humiliation and dignity, pointing to the painful history of Dalit groups (formerly called untouchables) and the contemporary perpetuation of caste inequality. As part of a challenge to high-caste Hindu intelligentsia with privileged upbringings, DALIT STUDIES includes a high proportion of Dalit scholars from non-elite social and institutional backgrounds. Contributors analyze the work of Dalit activists across colonial and postcolonial periods, countering a tradition of viewing them as passive victims and objects of reform.
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| Other form: | Online version: Dalit studies. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822374312
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