This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the status of Dalits in contemporary India. It delineates their economic and social status and charts
The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dali
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens.
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood