TY - BOOK AU - Jangam,Chinnaiah TI - Dalits and the making of modern India SN - 9780199477777 (hbk.) U1 - 305.56880954 JAN 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Dalits KW - Political activity KW - India KW - Nationalism KW - Equality N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index N2 - "The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nationalist narrative and brings to the fore the unacknowledged contributions of Dalits towards the collective imagination of [the] nation of India. By using colonial ER -