K W Christopher
Biographic Data
| ID | 642322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K W Christopher |
| GIVEN NAMES | K W |
| FAMILY NAME | Christopher |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTOPHER K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colonialism, missionaries, and Dalits in Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring
Dalit conversion to Christianity has a long history, predating Dr Ambedkar’s call for conversion in 1935. The contexts of conversion are many; however, the strong urge among Dalits to escape the oppressive, dehumanizing socio-spiritual condition remains the chief motive. The colonial administration, and even before that, the missionaries, were the first to make interventions in the lives of the Dalits, providing access to education, employment, h…
Cast(e)ing Narrative
It is an irony of history that Dalits who have been victims of Brahmanical social structures are now victims of Brahmanical regimes of representation in various avatars like postcoloniality and subaltern studies. Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable illustrates these politics of representation. This essay attempts to read Anand's Untouchable from the perspective of Dalit discourse amplifying the novel's silences and contradictions. It seeks to prob…
Between two worlds
Bama’s work in Tamil has for the first time brought to focus the lived experience of the Dalit Christian community that has been pushed to the margins of Indian society. Dalit Christians are doubly victimized, first because of their religion and second because of their caste, and Bama’s work captures and articulates this. However, the Dalit Christian specificity of the author tends to be underplayed and her work is read unproblematically as Dalit…
Colonialism, missionaries, and Dalits in Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring
Dalit conversion to Christianity has a long history, predating Dr Ambedkar’s call for conversion in 1935. The contexts of conversion are many; however, the strong urge among Dalits to escape the oppressive, dehumanizing socio-spiritual condition remains the chief motive. The colonial administration, and even before that, the missionaries, were the first to make interventions in the lives of the Dalits, providing access to education, employment, h…
Between two worlds
Bama’s work in Tamil has for the first time brought to focus the lived experience of the Dalit Christian community that has been pushed to the margins of Indian society. Dalit Christians are doubly victimized, first because of their religion and second because of their caste, and Bama’s work captures and articulates this. However, the Dalit Christian specificity of the author tends to be underplayed and her work is read unproblematically as Dalit…
Between two worlds
Bama’s work in Tamil has for the first time brought to focus the lived experience of the Dalit Christian community that has been pushed to the margins of Indian society. Dalit Christians are doubly victimized, first because of their religion and second because of their caste, and Bama’s work captures and articulates this. However, the Dalit Christian specificity of the author tends to be underplayed and her work is read unproblematically as Dalit…
Cast(e)ing Narrative
It is an irony of history that Dalits who have been victims of Brahmanical social structures are now victims of Brahmanical regimes of representation in various avatars like postcoloniality and subaltern studies. Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable illustrates these politics of representation. This essay attempts to read Anand's Untouchable from the perspective of Dalit discourse amplifying the novel's silences and contradictions. It seeks to prob…
Colonialism, missionaries, and Dalits in Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring
Dalit conversion to Christianity has a long history, predating Dr Ambedkar’s call for conversion in 1935. The contexts of conversion are many; however, the strong urge among Dalits to escape the oppressive, dehumanizing socio-spiritual condition remains the chief motive. The colonial administration, and even before that, the missionaries, were the first to make interventions in the lives of the Dalits, providing access to education, employment, h…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Caste (2 works)