Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics - Brossura

Narayan, Badri

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9780761935377: Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics

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ISBN 10: 0761935371 ISBN 13: 9780761935377

Casa editrice: SAGE, 2006

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This is the fifth volume in the series Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge and explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The author shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati.

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Recensione:

The community-wise examination of the evolution of Dalit consciousness in UP...makes this well-researched and elucidated tome so valuable. (The Tribune)

Rising assertiveness of Dalit castes is widespread today and this book offers valuable insights, which help in understanding this phenomenon. (The Telegraph)

The slim volume embraces a surprisingly wide range of issues that can serve as potential entry points to a nuanced exploration of the categories of culture, identities, community codes and nationhood.... Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India examines intricate academic issues with an assumed ease.

(Contributions to Indian Sociology)

L'autore:

Badri Narayan is lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.

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