This book is a commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits of Uttar Pradesh. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history in UP from 1950 to the present. The author examines the process of politicisation of Dalit communities through their internal social struggles and movements, and their emergence as a 'political public' in the State-oriented democratic political setting of contemporary India. This process is represented through stories and narratives that span the oppressed historical moments of the marginalized, documenting various social upheavels in post-independence India. The volume uses various alternative sources, alive in the oral tradition and 'collective memory' of the grassroots to explain contemporary history of Dalit mobilization in north India. The book unfolds the suppressed multiple layers of Dalit consciousness, hitherto ignored by mainstream discourse.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian politics, sociology, Dalit Studies, media studies, and cultural studies. It would also be useful for those studying state politics, especially Uttar Pradesh, and marginalization.
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L'autore:
Badri Narayan Tiwari is Associate Professor, G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.
Contenuti:
- List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Conversations, Histories, and Politics; 2. Telling Nehru and Aspiring for Freedom; 3. History Produces Politics: A Narrative of the Nara-Maveshi Movement in Uttar Pradesh; 4. The Politicisation of Dalit Women: Jhuria's Story; 5. A Book Also Travels: Circulating Small Booklets in Dalit Poorva; 6. Dalit Public and Political Power: Grassroots Pressures on Democracy; 7. Popular Sects and Politics: An Exploration of Intersections; 8. Hearing Dalit Talk: The Functioning of Electoral Democracy in a Village; Epilogue: In Search of Alternative Dalit Politics; References, Select Bibliography and Oral Sources
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- EditoreOUP India
- Data di pubblicazione2011
- ISBN 10 0198071876
- ISBN 13 9780198071877
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine224
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