Dalits in Modern India

Vision and Values
2. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3571-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

This second, revised and enlarged edition looks back at the aspirations and struggle of the marginalised Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on equality, social justice and human dignity. Within the context of Dalit emancipation, it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation in modern India. These articles, by some of the foremost researchers in the field, are presented in four parts:

Part I deals with the historical material on the origin and development of untouchability in Indian civilisation.

Part II contests mainstream explanations and shows that the Dalit vision of Indian society is different from that of the upper castes.

Part III offers a critique of the Sanskritic perspective of traditional Indian society, and fieldwork-based portraits of the Hinduisation of Adivasis in Gujarat, Dalit patriarchy in Maharashtra and Dalit power politics in Uttar Pradesh.

Part IV concentrates on the economic condition of the Dalits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Micheal, S. M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - S.M. Michael
Untouchability and Stratification in Indian Civilisation - Shrirama
Who is a Dalit? - John C.B. Webster

Colonialism within Colonialism - Mahesh Gavaskar
Phule's Critique of Brahmin Power
Dalit Vision of a Just Society in India - S.M. Michael
Ambedkar, Buddhism and the Concept of Religion - Timothy Fitzgerald
The Dalit Movement in Mainstream Sociology - GOPAL GURU
Liberation Movements in Comparative Perspective - K.P. SINGH
Dalit Indians and Black Americans
Sociology of India and Hinduism - S. Selvam
Towards a Method
Hinduisation of Adivasis - Arjun Patel
A Case Study from South Gujarat
Ambedkar's Daughters - Traude Pillai-Vetschera
A Study of Mahar Women in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra
The BSP in Uttar Pradesh - Christophe Jaffrelot
Party of the Dalits or of the Bahujans - or Catch-all Party?
Ambedkar's Interpretation of the Caste System, its Economic Consequences and Suggested Remedies - Sukhadeo Thorat
Dalits and Economic Policy - Gail Omvedt

Contributions of Dr B.R. Ambedkar
Reservation Policy and the Empowerment of Dalits - P.G. Jogdand
Scheduled Castes, Employment and Social Mobility - Richard Pais
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Micheal, S. M.
S M Michael is Reader at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, and Honorary Director, Institute of Indian Culture, Mumbai. He is a member of the visiting faculty at the Anthropos Institute, Bonn, and Magdeburg University, both in Germany. Dr Michael is a consultant to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Inter- Religious Dialogue as well as Chairman of the Bombay Archdiocesan Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. His published work includes The Cultural Context of Evangelization in India (1980), Anthropology as a Historical Science: Essays in Honour of Stephen Fuchs (co-edited, 1984), Culture & Urbanization (1989), Anthropology of Conversion in India (1998), Culture and Nationalism: Clarifying the Cultural Reality of India (co-edited with Leela D’Souza and Rowena Robinson, 2000), Globalization and Social Movements: Struggle for a Humane Society (co-edited, 2003), Communal Harmony, Secularism and Nation Building (2005), and about 60 articles in national and international journals.