2nd Edition

Dalits Past, Present and Future

By Anand Teltumbde Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by Routledge India

208 Pages
by Routledge India

208 Pages
by Routledge India

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, Dalits still suffer exclusion on various counts. The book traces the multifarious changes that befell them through history, germination of Dalit consciousness during the colonial period and its f lowering under the... Read more

1. The caste context 2. Anti-caste developments 3. Pre-Ambedkar movements of Dalits 4. Dalit movement under Ambedkar 5. Post-Ambedkar movements of Dalits 6. Religious conversion as emancipation 7. Politics as the master key 8. Dalits under neoliberalism 9. New trends among Dalits 10. Dalits under the Hindu Rashtra in the making 11. Whither Dalit emancipation

Biography

Anand Teltumbde is one of India’s most prominent public intellectuals and civil rights activists. He has authored 27 books, numerous articles and papers on a variety of issues, especially caste, class and peoples’ democratic struggles in contemporary India. He has lectured extensively in Indian and foreign universities. A regular commentator in leading English newspapers and magazines, he wrote a monthly column entitled ‘Margin Speak’ in the Economic and Political Weekly. Trained in technology and management, he held top management positions in the corporate world and switched to academics as Professor of Management at IIT, Kharagpur, before shifting to the Goa Institute of Management, India, as Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics.