Writing Dalit History and Other Essays

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The history of these ‘untouchables’ has yet become a part of Indian historiography, thought the study is of immense relevance and significance on account of the inherent radical democratic identity of their movement and their role as productive communities. Available scholarship on these oppressed communities suffers from lack of historical and written documentation. As a result, attempts towards historically locating ‘untouchables’ are impeded by an acute shortage of direct evidence about the realities of Dalit social life. Recent initiatives to reconstruct Dalit history generally draws from traditional historical sources like archival material, reports of census, commissions, committees and gazetteers. Biographical and autobiographical writings of Dalit organic intellectuals do exist as also literature in the form of poems, novels, dramas, contemporary pres reports and caste-association activities, though in the vernacular. The essays in this volume have mainly drawn from these sources.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yagati Chinna Rao

Yagati Chinna Rao currently teaching at the Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His other works including Dalits' Struggle for Identity (2003); Dalit Studies: A Bibliographical Handbook (2003); also been Co-editor, Development of Women's Education in India (2001); and Educating the Nation: Documents on the Discourse of National Education in India (2003). He has also been Visiting Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

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Title
Writing Dalit History and Other Essays
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Edition
1st ed.
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8173918805
Length
xiii+222p., Tables; Notes; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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