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As one ponders, in all the terms that sociology and anthropology can provide, a social system that arranges human beings into pure and impure, and bemoans in moral terms the impregnable fort of the highborn, there comes along in the fourteenth century one such as Chokhamela. Can there be such love in the world is the wondering question that surfaces after a reading of these amazing poems written so long ago. Nothing so clearly brings into focus the tension ...
If we put the experience of lower castes at the centre of our understanding of colonial modernity then we are faced with the unresolved dilemma of belonging, which continues into independent India. The simple dichotomy of inner and outer, tradition and modernity collapses since lower castes are excluded from the inner space of tradition itself. Their access to colonial modernity is mediated through their entrapment in the domain of a tradition within which they ...