State-Led Development of Developing Societies
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 42, Heft 3-4, S. 321-327
ISSN: 1745-2538
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In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 42, Heft 3-4, S. 321-327
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 255-263
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: The Indian journal of public administration: quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 141-144
ISSN: 0019-5561
In: Social scientist: monthly journal of the Indian School of Social Sciences, Band 30, Heft 7/8, S. 84
In: The Indian journal of public administration: quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 255-262
ISSN: 0019-5561
In: Routledge contemporary South Asia series
In: Routledge contemporary South Asia series
The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in popular use till the last quarter of the 20th century, the origin of the term Dalit, although in the 1930s, it was used as Marathi-Hindi translation of the word "Depressed Classes". The changing nature of caste and Dalits has become a topic of increasing interest in India. This edited book is a collection of originally written chapters by eminent experts on the experiences of Dalits in India. It examines who constitute Dalits and engages with the mainstream subaltern perspective that treats Dalits as a political and economic category, a class phenomenon, and subsumes homogeneity of the entire Dalit population. This book argues that the socio-cultural deprivations of Dalits are their primary deprivations, characterized by heterogeneity of their experiences. It asserts that Dalits have a common urge to liberate from the oppressive and exploitative social arrangement which has been the guiding force of Dalit movement. This book has analysed this movement through three phases: the reformative, the transformative and the confrontationist. An exploration of dynamic relations between subalternity, exclusion and social change, the book will be of interest to academics in the field of sociology, political science and contemporary India.
In: The Indian journal of public administration: quarterly journal of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Band 53, Heft 4, S. 860-864
ISSN: 0019-5561
In: Contemporary South Asia, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 105-122
ISSN: 1469-364X