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This work deals with the familiar story of Dalits with a new perspective. Often social scientists in general and historians in particular interpret Dalit consciousness as ‘false consciousness’ undermining their radical political self-assertion. This work mainly deals with the Dalit’s political self-assertion. This work mainly deals with the Dalit’s political consciousness, their struggle ...
This collection of documents, with an Introduction by Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya of Jawaharlal Nehru University, focuses upon the evolution of the idea of National Education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India. From the 1880’s there develops a critique of the colonial education system and, in a more general way, the cultural hegemony established through that system – the privileging of ‘English education’, the attribution of ...
This volume of Dalit Studies, is a collection writings on Scheduled Castes, i.e. ex-untouchables of India. This is the first of its kind with more than 4000 entries and above hundred years of time span. The volume consists of published books and monographs, articles published in journals and periodicals and unpublished dissertations and these and rare Christian missionary tracts on the subject. This volume also includes an appendix containing brief notes on the ...
Essays in this festschrift, brought out in honour of professor K.S. Chalam, are highly specialized, covering the four states of southern India. These are the analytical essays on the history and socio-economic transformation of the marginal communities or disprivileged groups, i.e., Dalits, tribes and other occupational communities. The essays focus on these social categories and reflect on economic development, and the process of social change. Professor Chalam ...
Essays in this festschrift, brought out in honour of Professor K.S. Chalam, are highly specialized, covering the four states of Southern India. These are the analytical essays on the history and socio-economic transformation of the marginal communities or disprivileged groups, i.e., Dalits, tribes and other occupational communities. The essays focus on these social categories and reflect on economic development, and the process of social change. Professor Chalam ...