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Modernity of slavery : struggles against caste inequality in colonial Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 345 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198099765 (hbk.)
  • 0198099762 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.5688095483 MOH 23 008838
Contents:
List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonial Transformations: Situating the Experience of Slave Castes in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala 2. Discourses and Constructions of Slavery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala 3. Discourses on Struggles against Inequalities: Dalit Movements in the Early Twentieth-century 4. Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Imagining of Equality in Twentieth-century Kerala 5. Memory and Experience: Discourses of Slavery 6. Discourses of History and the Making of Community Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author.
Summary: This text pushes further the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed in this study 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.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 305.5688095483 MOH 008838 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008838

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Colonial Transformations: Situating the Experience of Slave Castes in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala
2. Discourses and Constructions of Slavery in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Kerala
3. Discourses on Struggles against Inequalities: Dalit Movements in the Early Twentieth-century
4. Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha and the Imagining of Equality in Twentieth-century Kerala
5. Memory and Experience: Discourses of Slavery
6. Discourses of History and the Making of Community
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.


This text pushes further the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed in this study 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.

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