Modernity of Slavery

Struggles against Caste Inequality in Colonial Kerala

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ID20005107
AuthorsP Sanal Mohan (0000-0002-3057-0392, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages396
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueModernity of Slavery (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099765.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243237891
Open LibraryOL28534904M
ISBN9780198099765
LanguageEN
Citations received48

This book tells the story of Cherumas, Kuravas, Parayas, Pulayas, and Thanda Pulayas—the slave castes of nineteenth-century Kerala—and their tryst with Christianity. These castes comprised nearly one-sixth of the population and were 'owned' by upper castes, princely states, and even Europeans. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when European missionaries began working among the slave castes, thousands joined the Church. Their generational experiences, struggles, and memories shaped their collective self, and deeply impacted the emergence of Dalit consciousness in Kerala. This book presents and analyses the imaginations and articulations of the notion(s) of equality in the context of caste slavery, missionary activity, and socio-political transition in pre-colonial and modern Kerala

Ancient history · Archaeology · Caste · Christianity · Colonialism · Consciousness · Context (archaeology) · Ethnology · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Social and Economic Development in India · Dalits · India · Kerala · Social conditions

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