Jogendranath Mandal and the Politics of Dalit Recognition in Pakistan

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ID11016156
AuthorsGhazal Asif Farrukhi (0000-0003-0667-5538, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume43
Issue1
Pages119-135
Publication date2020-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00856401.2020.1689472
OpenAlexW2997761937
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This essay examines some turns in the Pakistani political career of the Dalit leader Jogendranath Mandal between 1947 and 1950 when he resigned as a government minister and left the country. The imperatives of Dalit emancipation interacted with concerns about the position of minorities, thereby revealing the conditions by which difference became legible in the new state. In the creation of Pakistan, Mandal had seen a promise of furthering Dalit emancipation, but this vision could not withstand the state’s view of an undifferentiated Hindu minority population. By tracing Mandal’s trajectory, this essay follows both the promises offered by Pakistan and the slow closure of such alternative possibilities

Emancipation · Government (linguistics · Hinduism · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Religious Studies

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