Dalit Leadership in India

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Conceptualization of Dalit Leadership in Indian democratic policies is a difficult preposition. The book is a modest attempt to understand the same and many other related issues with the Dalit leadership in India. the facts and figures about the origin, growth and development of Dalit Leadership in Indian society are missing from the main stream academia though the Dalit Leadership has a long history of struggle. An examination about the nature and dynamics, strategy or strategies adopted for mobilization and empowerment of the Dalit masses, is also not found in different streams of discipline taught at the universities and colleges. Therefore, it is imperative to explore the aforesaid unexplored facts, issues, mysteries etc. about the Dalit Leadership at this crucial juncture when Dalit Assertion has become a socio-political reality. The present book successfully answers most of these queries regarding the Dalit Leadership in a very lucid manner.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vivek Kumar

Dr. Vivek Kumar, Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Social Systems/School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, was born in a Dalit family in Lucknow. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from the same university where he is teaching. He was a lecturer in the Unit for Sociology of Education, TataInstitute of Social Science, Mumbai for a brief period. He also worked for The Pioneer an English daily and Hindi weekly, Pioneer Saptahik, published from Lucknow and New Delhi simultaneously. Dr. Vivek has contributed number of research papers in the books and Journals. He is author of Dalit Assertion and Bahujan Samaj Party. He attended the International Confernece against Racism held at Durban in South Africa in the year 2001. His major area of specialisation is Social Stratification and Social Movements.