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Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia
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Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / Milind Wakankar.
ISBN
9780415778787 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415778786 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203859650 (ebook)
0203859650 (ebook)
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Physical Description
xii, 202 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 29, 2010
Series
Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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