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Dalits - Past, present and future (Hardcover)
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Dalits - Past, present and future (Hardcover)
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to dalits in India (who
comprise over one-sixth of the country's population) from the
origins of caste system to the present day. Despite a plethora of
provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution,
dalits are largely excluded from the mainstream except for a
minuscule section. The book traces the multifarious changes that
befell them during the colonial period and their development
thereafter under the leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar in the centre
of political arena. It looks at hitherto unexplored aspects of the
degeneration of the dalit movement during the post-Ambedkar period,
as well as salient contemporary issues such as the rise of the
Bahujan Samaj Party, dalit capitalism, the occupation of dalit
discourse by NGOs, neoliberalism and its impact, and the various
implicit or explicit emancipation schemas thrown up by them. The
work also discusses ideology, strategy and tactics of the dalit
movement; touches upon one of the most contentious issues of
increasing divergence between the dalit and Marxist movements; and
delineates the role of the state, both colonial and post-colonial,
in shaping dalit politics in particular ways. A tour de force, this
book brings to the fore many key contemporary concerns and will be
of great interest to students, scholars and teachers of politics
and political economy, sociology, history, social exclusion studies
and the general reader.
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