Modernity of Slavery
Struggles Against Caste Inequality In Colonial Kerala
Price: 1400.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198099765
Publication date:
13/07/2015
Paperback
368 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 1400.00 INR
ISBN:
9780198099765
Publication date:
13/07/2015
Paperback
368 pages
216.0x140.0mm
First Edition
P. Sanal Mohan
Centring the questions of consciousness and interiority, this book challenges the stereotypes of historical writing on Dalits and Christianity. It highlights everyday experiences, such as break-up of families, torture, sufferings, and re-memorialization of these experiences by contemporary generations, and weaves in narratives of specific instances, events, and personalities. Offering nuanced and unprecedented use of fresh archival sources and historical ethnography, this book will be a tour de force for anyone interested in the journeys of Dalit consciousness, Christianity, and religious movements in India.
Suitable for: Primary Market: Libraries Historians, Sociologists, Social Anthropologists, South Asianists, scholars of Post-colonial studies, cultural studies Secondary Market: Professionals- Researchers. General readers.
Rights: World Rights
First Edition
P. Sanal Mohan
First Edition
P. Sanal Mohan
Table of contents
List of Abbreviations
First Edition
P. Sanal Mohan
Features
- This book pushes the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed by analysing the problems of Dalit identity in Kerala. The book is a product of interdisciplinary research based on new archival and ethnographic materials which contributes to debates on colonial modernity.
First Edition
P. Sanal Mohan
Table of contents
List of Abbreviations