Badri Narayan
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There are two ways of looking at democracy. One is the view of the state, policymakers and so on, which shows the dissemination and spread of democracy in statistical terms. The other view is the one from the bottom. This view helps us understand and grapple with the reality of the spread of democracy, and enables us to observe the groups and communities excluded from the process of democratic empowerment.
Fractured Tales documents narratives of the voiceless and ...
The book is an in-depth commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation and mobilisation among Dalits in modern India. Based on extensive fieldwork in eastern UP and referring to the oral traditions and collective memory of the Dalits, it discusses the social and political history of Dalits in UP from 1950 onwards. It discusses the process of politicisation of Dalit communities through their social struggles and politicisation of Dalit women in ...
The Making of a Dalit Public in North India is a detailed commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits in northern India. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history in the state from 1950 to the present. Using alternative sources—stories and narratives—alive in the oral tradition and ‘collective ...
A new change is explicitly visible today in Indian society. The community of dalits lying dormant and silent have now become assertive, carving out their independent identity. This is found in the narrations of their own culture and tradition. This is a new voice and not a voice appropriated either from Brahmanism nor lacking originality as is commonly believed. This is precisely what this book attempts to explore. Many folk heroes are now at the centre of new ...
This volume compiles popular booklets representing grass root dissent and protest of the dalit community in north India. Dalits have remained excluded not only from the economic and cultural mainstream of society but also from the ambit of the expression of their existential notions in the hierarchical order of the society. Despite their multiple sociological layers and also multiple expressions, it is the dominant expression produced in the urban and literary ...
This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The book studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857. Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. While demonstrating how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are ...
In the present socio-political scenario of India, Dalits have emerged as a major force in the electoral arena and mobilising them has almost become a compulsion for all political parties. Fascinating Hindutva : Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation is a deconstruction of the fascinating tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilise Dalits. Based on original empirical data from extensive field work in UP and Bihar, the book documents how the ...