Ramnarayan S Rawat
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 264014 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ramnarayan S Rawat |
| PRENOMES | Ramnarayan S |
| SOBRENOME | Rawat |
| ASSINATURA | RAWAT R S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delaware |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere
Drawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characteriz…
The Immortal King Rao
Governmentality, activism and representation
Rupa Viswanath, The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, pp. 416. P. Sanal Mohan, Modernity of Slavery: Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015, 368 pp. Charu Gupta, The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016, 352 pp
Genealogies of the Dalit political
The essay documents the unprecedented transformation of the term Achhut in the Hindi literature from an adjective describing a quality ‘untouched, [and] pure’ to a noun referring to an untouchable person or caste and characterising them as impure. Using Hindustani and other language dictionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prominent Hindi-language journals of the period, such as the Nagari Pracharini Patrika and Sarasvati, and the …
Occupation, Dignity, and Space
Dalit Studies has emerged as a new field of study in South Asia since the 1990s, helping to reorient scholarship's interest away from the study of untouchability as a phenomenon toward a recognition and recovery of Dalit actors. This review essay identifies three broad themes‐occupation, dignity, and space, and uses them to survey the literature on Dalit society over the last hundred years. It suggests that occupation was a prominent organizing c…
Making Claims for Power
T]he awakened untouchable today is repeatedly asking them [the Congress] if they could not remove the 'social evil' of their own creation without political power, how do they expect us [the untouchables] to liberate ourselves without political power'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p. 24)'This is 1946, not 1932'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p.76)Shankaranand Shastri's statements help us locate two related propositions that came to constitute Dalit p…
Making Claims for Power
T]he awakened untouchable today is repeatedly asking them [the Congress] if they could not remove the 'social evil' of their own creation without political power, how do they expect us [the untouchables] to liberate ourselves without political power'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p. 24)'This is 1946, not 1932'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p.76)Shankaranand Shastri's statements help us locate two related propositions that came to constitute Dalit p…
Occupation, Dignity, and Space
Dalit Studies has emerged as a new field of study in South Asia since the 1990s, helping to reorient scholarship's interest away from the study of untouchability as a phenomenon toward a recognition and recovery of Dalit actors. This review essay identifies three broad themes‐occupation, dignity, and space, and uses them to survey the literature on Dalit society over the last hundred years. It suggests that occupation was a prominent organizing c…
Genealogies of the Dalit political
The essay documents the unprecedented transformation of the term Achhut in the Hindi literature from an adjective describing a quality ‘untouched, [and] pure’ to a noun referring to an untouchable person or caste and characterising them as impure. Using Hindustani and other language dictionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prominent Hindi-language journals of the period, such as the Nagari Pracharini Patrika and Sarasvati, and the …
Making Claims for Power
T]he awakened untouchable today is repeatedly asking them [the Congress] if they could not remove the 'social evil' of their own creation without political power, how do they expect us [the untouchables] to liberate ourselves without political power'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p. 24)'This is 1946, not 1932'. (Shastri, Poona Pact. 1946, p.76)Shankaranand Shastri's statements help us locate two related propositions that came to constitute Dalit p…
Occupation, Dignity, and Space
Dalit Studies has emerged as a new field of study in South Asia since the 1990s, helping to reorient scholarship's interest away from the study of untouchability as a phenomenon toward a recognition and recovery of Dalit actors. This review essay identifies three broad themes‐occupation, dignity, and space, and uses them to survey the literature on Dalit society over the last hundred years. It suggests that occupation was a prominent organizing c…
Genealogies of the Dalit political
The essay documents the unprecedented transformation of the term Achhut in the Hindi literature from an adjective describing a quality ‘untouched, [and] pure’ to a noun referring to an untouchable person or caste and characterising them as impure. Using Hindustani and other language dictionaries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prominent Hindi-language journals of the period, such as the Nagari Pracharini Patrika and Sarasvati, and the …
Governmentality, activism and representation
Rupa Viswanath, The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, pp. 416. P. Sanal Mohan, Modernity of Slavery: Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015, 368 pp. Charu Gupta, The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016, 352 pp
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere
Drawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characteriz…
The Immortal King Rao
Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 obras) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (5 obras) · History (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Caste (3 obras) · Colonialism (3 obras)