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Deceptive Majority - Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (Paperback)
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Deceptive Majority - Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion (Paperback)
Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences
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The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the
assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as
'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense,
Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in
the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under
what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths
does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions
at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia.
Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks
the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century
nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body
politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an
examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive
Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian
projects are both advanced and undermined.
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