In Indian context.

Study conducted at Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, India.

This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.

The Title 'Encyclopaedia of Dalits In India (Human Rights: New Dimensions In Dalit Problems), 14th written by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva' was published in the year 2002. The ISBN number 9788178351292 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 307 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. Vol: - 14ththe subject of this book is Reference / Dictionary / Encyclopaedia / Scheduled Castes / OBC / Minorities / Sociol

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India. With contributions from scholars like Valerian Rodrigues, B.B. Mohanty, Surinder Jodhka, and Anand Teltumbde, it discusses wide-ranging themes like the trajectory of caste in post-independence India; Dalits and cultural identity; the paradox of being a Dalit woman; caste violence and social mobility; Ambedkar’s quest for the right of social equality; social security for the inclusive development of Dalits; discrimination and exclusion of Dalits in education; and Dalit merit and institutional injustice, and presents an overview of the struggles for distributive justice in India. This volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of Dalit studies, social justice, exclusion studies, caste studies, affirmative action, political studies, sociology, social anthropology, and South Asian politics.