Anand Teltumbde

Dalits (eBook, ePUB)

Past, present and future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive introduction to dalits in India - from the origins of caste system to the present day. 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 the degeneration of the dalit movement during the post-Ambedkar period, as well as salient contemporary issues including rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, dalit capitalism, the occupation of dalit discourse by NGOs, and neoliberalism and its impact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315526430
• Artikelnr.: 45696888

Autorenporträt

Anand Teltumbde is one of India's most prominent rights activists and is General Secretary of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Maharashtra, India. He teaches at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has authored several books, articles and papers on a variety of issues, especially caste, class, political economy and democratic politics in contemporary India, and has been widely translated into Indian languages. He has lectured extensively in Indian and foreign universities, is a regular contributor to leading English newspapers and magazines, and writes a monthly column entitled 'Margin Speak' in the Economic and Political Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Introduction 1. The Caste Context 2. Anti-Caste Developments 3.
Pre-Ambedkar Dalit Movements 4. Dalit Movement under Ambedkar 5.
Post-Ambedkar Movements of Dalits 6. Religious Conversion as Emancipation
7. Politics as the Masterkey 8. Dalits under Neoliberalism 9. New Trends in
dalit Movement Epilogue Index