1st Edition
Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India
Part 1: Introduction 1. Dalits, Subalterns and Social Change in India Part 2: Perspectives on Dalits as Subalterns 2. Dalits are not merely Subalterns: the need for a different perspective 3. Glimpses of Traditions For and Against Untouchability Part 3: Constructing New Historiography 4. Dalit Memoirs: A New Source of Historiography 5. Subalternity and Popular Religion: Religiosity and Making of the Bhajans of Dharanidas Part 4: Education as Liberator 6. Education and Dalit Liberation: Possibilities and Constraints 7. Socialization Experience of Doctoral Students in Indian Academia: Do Caste and Class Matter? Part 5: Changing Socio-Cultural Space 8. Politics, Caste and Dalit Subalternity: Reflecting on the Modes of Engagement 9. Rural Dalit Women: Assertion for Change 10. Dalit Women in Uttar Pradesh: Experiencing Subalternity and Exclusion Part 6: The Last Citizens of India 11. Manual Scavengers: Apathetic state and callous society 12. Dalits and Devdasi System: A Dignified Form of Sexual Slavery
Biography
Ashok K. Pankaj is currently Director of the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India. He specialises in law and political economy of development. His edited books include: Right to Work and Rural India: Working of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) (2012) and Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India (co-edited) (2014).
Ajit K. Pandey teaches Sociology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He specialises in sociological theory and research methodology. His recent books include New Directions in Sociological Theory: Disputes, Discourses and Orientations and Subalternity (2010), Exclusion and Social Change in India (co-edited) (2014).
