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Dalits and the making of modern India /

Jangam, Chinnaiah,

Dalits and the making of modern India / Chinnaiah Jangam. - First edition. - xiii, 247 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Dalit Nomenclature, Translation, and Transliteration
Part I: Dalits and the Colonial Conjuncture
1. Mapping Dalit Consciousness: A Historical Note
2. Education and Dalit Enlightenment: A Colonial Conjuncture
3. Quandary of Caste Hindus: Thus Spake the Shastras and Science on Caste and Untouchability
Part II: Making of the Self and the Political Identity
4. Cleansing the Stigma: Making of the Dalit Self and Identity
5. Dalits and the Politics of Emancipation
Part III: Dalit Imagination: An Egalitarian Ethic
6. Whose Nation? Dalits and the Imagination of the Nation
Epilogue: An Invincible Imagination
Bibliography
About the Author

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9780199477777 0199477779

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

2017329390


Dalits--Political activity--India.
Nationalism--India.
Equality--India.

DS422.C3 / J36 2017

305.5688 JAN