Caste and Dalit Lifewords : postcolonial perspectives
Debjani Ganguly
- New Delhi Orient Blackswan Private Limited c2005
- 287 P.
Prologue 1. Modernity postcoloniality and the New Humanities : towards a non-holistic reading of caste Part 1 Cast and theoretical horizons ' 2. The dark rock of Indian tradition : caste and orientalism 3. The anomalous insider : Caste and Nationalism 4. An intractable dualism: Caste and Marxism 5. On the other side of revenge : caste and post-Orientalism Part II Caste, life-world, narrative and the aesthetic 6. dalit mythographies: Ambedkar as modernity's interlocutor 7. Buddha, bhakti and 'superstition' : a post-secular reading of dalit conversion 8. Of urban dystopias and new gods: readings from Marathi dalit literature 9. Chandra, Velutha, Ammu, death: the aporia of the aesthetic Epilogue Notes Bibliography ' Index