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Caste and gender in contemporary India : Power, privilege and politics

By: Publication details: LOndon Routledge 2014ISBN:
  • 9780367147624
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 BAN
Contents:
Table of Contents List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction Interrogating Intersections, Understanding Identities Nandini Ghosh and Supurna Banerjee Chapter 1 Thinking about Caste: An Autobiographical Journey Uma Chakravarti Chapter 2 Negotiating with Patriarchy and Access to Higher Education Vandana Chapter 3 Kaarigars, Karkhanas and the Art of Embroidery Bidisha Dhar Chapter 4 Negotiating Gender: Caste and Disability Identities of Women in India Nandini Ghosh Chapter 5 Caste Identity and Community Feast among Yadavs: An Interpretation Devi Prasad Chapter 6 The Hindutva Politics of Uma Bharati: Challenges to Women’s Movements Nandita Banerjee Dhawan Chapter 7 Nationalism of Exclusion: Gaumata and her Unholy Sons Supurna Banerjee Chapter 8 ‘Chandalini-r Bibriti’: Interrogating Caste and Gender in Contemporary Bengali Dalit Literature Praskanva Sinharay Chapter 9 Bama’s ‘Karukku’: A Beaded String of Gender, Caste, Religion Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury Chapter 10 Caste-Gender Intersectionalities and the Curious Case of Child Nutrition: A Methodological Exposition Simantini Mukhopadhyay and Achin Chakraborty Index
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Table of Contents
List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Glossary



Introduction

Interrogating Intersections, Understanding Identities

Nandini Ghosh and Supurna Banerjee

Chapter 1

Thinking about Caste: An Autobiographical Journey

Uma Chakravarti

Chapter 2

Negotiating with Patriarchy and Access to Higher Education

Vandana

Chapter 3

Kaarigars, Karkhanas and the Art of Embroidery

Bidisha Dhar

Chapter 4

Negotiating Gender: Caste and Disability Identities of Women in India

Nandini Ghosh

Chapter 5

Caste Identity and Community Feast among Yadavs: An Interpretation

Devi Prasad

Chapter 6

The Hindutva Politics of Uma Bharati: Challenges to Women’s Movements

Nandita Banerjee Dhawan

Chapter 7

Nationalism of Exclusion: Gaumata and her Unholy Sons

Supurna Banerjee

Chapter 8

‘Chandalini-r Bibriti’: Interrogating Caste and Gender in Contemporary Bengali Dalit Literature

Praskanva Sinharay

Chapter 9

Bama’s ‘Karukku’: A Beaded String of Gender, Caste, Religion

Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury

Chapter 10

Caste-Gender Intersectionalities and the Curious Case of Child Nutrition: A Methodological Exposition

Simantini Mukhopadhyay and Achin Chakraborty

Index

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