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 for identity, and the manner in which they rose from a stage when they could develop their own self definition and roles within the dialectics of the nationalist anticolonial struggle. The strength of this work lies in drawing upon vernacular sources and in presenting an insiders’ perspective.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chinna Rao Yagati
Dr. Chinna Rao Yagati, currently working as a Research Officer at Educational Research and Records Unit, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He had been a Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (2001 / 2002). His other works include: Dallits’ Struggle for Identity: Andhra and Hyderabad, 1900-1950 (2003); also Co-edited with S. Bhattacharya et.al. Development of Women’s Sducation in India 1850-1920 (2001); and Educating the Nation: Documents on the Discourse of National Education in India, 1880-1920 (2003).
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