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• Year : 2014 • Binding : Hardback • ISBN : 9789382993247 • Price ` 895.00 only

Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India Editors: Ashok K. Pankaj & Ajit K. Pandey Ashok K. Pankaj is Professor at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi.

Ajit K. Pandey is Professor of sociology at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India Editors: Ashok K. Pankaj & Ajit K. Pandey The essays in this volume capture ideology, knowledge and power as forces of subaltern reproduction in Indian society, and map the dominant trajectories of emancipation and assertion adopted by different subaltern social groups. Contributors show how subalterns are negotiating emancipation amidst continued oppression, subjugation and atrocities.

Table of Contents Foreword • Preface; Section I: Introduction; 1. Understanding Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India; Section II: Engaging with Subaltern Studies in India; 2. Revisiting Subaltern Studies in India; 3. On Altering the Ego in Peasant History: Paradoxes of Culturological Option; 4. Human Rights, Dalit Questions and Subaltern Studies in India; Section III: Subaltern

Reproduction through Idea, Knowledge and Power; 5. A Subaltern Perspective on the Discourse of New Political Economy of India; 6. Modern Science and Indigenous Techniques: Subalternity of Knowledge Production in India; 7. The Construction of the Subaltern through Education: The Historical Failure of Mass Education in India;Section IV: Routes of Subjugation and Emancipation: Identity and Assertion, Mobilization and Power, Knowledge and Production; 8. Contours of Dalit Movement in South India: A Search for Egalitarian Social Order; 9. Subalternity and the Mirage of Social Inclusion: Bama’s Karukku and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion; 10. Women and Land: Agriculture and Opportunity; 11. Religion and Society in Our Time; Section V: Aspects of Social and Cultural Changes; 12. Exclusivist View of Hinduism: A Critical Appraisal; 13 Changing Role of Caste and Class in Rural Bihar; 14 Explaining Caste-Class Nexus: Continuity and Change; 15 Khap Panchayat, Honour Killings and Gender Relations in Western India Contributors Index Foundation Books is an imprint of Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd.

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