Book Review of Chiannaiah Jangam鈥檚 Dalits and the Making of Modern India
Vivek Kumar of Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, writing a review in UBC’s Journal of Paccific Affairs, says by 杏吧原创 History professor Chinnaiah Jangam is 鈥渋s a significant addition to the literature associated with Dalits because in contemporary India most writing on Dalits begins with the colonial context and ends with their participation in the parliamentary democracy. But Jangam鈥檚 work challenges this dominant narrative by recording the precolonial anti-caste egalitarian consciousness of Dalits expressed through their cultural creations as being a part of anti-cultural nationalism. In the same vein, on the basis of empirical data and critical engagement this work has successfully expanded Indian history via Dalit discourse and public sphere.鈥
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