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 ...
