{"product_id":"the-caste-question-dalits-and-the-politics-of-modern-india-paperback","title":"The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnupama Rao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of \u003ci\u003eThe Caste Question \u003c\/i\u003ereveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful book on caste, a subject that has dramatic importance not only for the history of democracy in modern India, but for the general discussion on the interferences of social inequalities and cultural exclusions. \u003ci\u003eThe Caste Question\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the usual antitheses of localism and globalism, and illustrates a decisive notion of intensive universality.--Etienne Balibar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sustained and probing analysis of the modern history of caste in Western India, connecting issues of gender, personhood, property, and politics to facts of oppression and inequality. This is the most politically and theoretically engaged book on caste to have come out in a long time.\"--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of \u003ci\u003eHabitations of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound reflection, at once historically rich and theoretically nuanced, on the nature of political modernity itself.\"--John Comaroff, co-author (with Jean Comaroff) of \u003ci\u003eOf Revelation and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rao is entirely convincing in this brilliant and audacious re-evaluation of political modernity in India through the perspective of anti-caste struggles.\"--Mrinalini Sinha, author of \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Mother India: The Global Re-Structuring of an Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnupama Rao\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Barnard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.96 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782370263328,"sku":"9780520257610","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a3085a626fae1d0fa3a4e12fc63163b4.webp?v=1780569049","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-caste-question-dalits-and-the-politics-of-modern-india-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}