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Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization: Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective book cover

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Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective

Edited By Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Malini Ranganathan, Pavithra Vasudevan Copyright 2023
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by... Read more

1. Introduction: Rethinking difference in India through racialization 

Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Malini Ranganathan and Pavithra Vasudevan 

2. Moving untouched: B. R. Ambedkar and the racialization of untouchability 

Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza 

3. Caste, racialization, and the making of environmental unfreedoms in urban India 

Malini Ranganathan 

4. Broomscapes: racial capitalism, waste, and caste in Indian Railway Stations 

Pallavi Gupta 

5. Dirty food: racism and casteism in India 

Dolly Kikon 

6. Theorizing racialization through India’s "Mongolian Fringe" 

Mabel Denzin Gergan and Sara H. Smith 

7. Racialization and ethnicization: Hindutva hegemony and caste 

Balmurli Natrajan 

8. The transnational routes of white and Hindu nationalisms 

Ishan Ashutosh 

9. Global Castes 

Suraj Yengde 

Biography

Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza is Lecturer in the History Department, University of Manchester.

Mabel Denzin Gergan is Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University.

Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.

Pavithra Vasudevan is Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

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