Caste Question
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A01=Anupama Rao
Author_Anupama Rao
caste
caste discrimination
caste property
caste radicalism
Category=JBSA
Category=JHM
Category=NHF
citizens
colonial liberalism
colonialism
dalits
democracy
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eq_society-politics
equality
ethnography
ex untouchables
historical anthropology
human condition
india
indian culture
indian democracy
indian society
new political subject
personhood
persons without rights
political
political minority
postcolonialism
regulating caste
rights
sexual politics
south asian historiography
south asian history
stigmatization
untouchables
violence
western india
Product details
- ISBN 9780520257610
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of "The Caste Question" reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College.
