Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India culture, identity, and politics
- Author/Creator:
- Nārāyaṇa, Badrī
- Publication/Creation:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India culture, identity, and politics / Badri Narayan
- Series Titles:
- Cultural subordination and the Dalit challenge ; v. 5
Cultural subordination and the Dalit challenge ; v. 5.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Bahujan Samaj Party
Dalits--India--Uttar Pradesh--Political activity
Women heroes--Mythology--Political aspects--India--Uttar Pradesh
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction -- New narratives of Dalit politics -- Formation of political orality and the role of Dalit print -- Visuals, cultural performances, and myths -- Identity politics and new historical resources : Dalit location in 1857 history -- Jhalkaribai and the Koris of Bundelkhand -- Pasis, Dalits, and Udadevi -- Women heroes, goddesses, and the politics of image making -- Conclusion.
- Summary:
- This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The book studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. While demonstrating how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity, and then reconstructed for political mobilization, this book. - narrates some of the tales used t
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (188 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936946883902486
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-057-5
1-282-15409-5
9786612154096
81-321-0280-0 - OCLC Number:
- 436076495
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