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.
發表於2024-12-24
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圖書標籤: 後殖民 曆史 印度 Rao_Anupama
How "Dalit" is a category of becoming, conceived as non-Hindu: socially stigmatized subject and politically revolutionary figure; structural negativity and positive political content; positive negativity, potential for self-reconceptualization through colonial state legislation and colonial liberalism; negative identity as basis of rights claims
評分How "Dalit" is a category of becoming, conceived as non-Hindu: socially stigmatized subject and politically revolutionary figure; structural negativity and positive political content; positive negativity, potential for self-reconceptualization through colonial state legislation and colonial liberalism; negative identity as basis of rights claims
評分How "Dalit" is a category of becoming, conceived as non-Hindu: socially stigmatized subject and politically revolutionary figure; structural negativity and positive political content; positive negativity, potential for self-reconceptualization through colonial state legislation and colonial liberalism; negative identity as basis of rights claims
評分How "Dalit" is a category of becoming, conceived as non-Hindu: socially stigmatized subject and politically revolutionary figure; structural negativity and positive political content; positive negativity, potential for self-reconceptualization through colonial state legislation and colonial liberalism; negative identity as basis of rights claims
評分How "Dalit" is a category of becoming, conceived as non-Hindu: socially stigmatized subject and politically revolutionary figure; structural negativity and positive political content; positive negativity, potential for self-reconceptualization through colonial state legislation and colonial liberalism; negative identity as basis of rights claims
The Caste Question 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載