Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / Milind Wakankar.
By: Wakankar, Milind.
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TextSeries: Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.Description: xii, 202 p. 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415778787; 0415778786.Subject(s): Religion and social status -- India -- Historiography | Dalits -- Historiography | Dalits -- Social conditions | Dalits -- Religious lifeDDC classification: 200.8 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Preface -- Introduction: The question of a prehistory -- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique -- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion -- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay -- The vicissitudes of historical religion -- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir -- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi -- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari -- The prehistory of historical religion -- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities -- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram -- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.
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