Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corruption -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population a…
"[The book] investigates and presents a holistic view of today's rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social structure comprising peasants, artisans, weavers and the middl…
"Untouchable migrants made up a significant proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the 19th and 20th centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today, however…
"Untouchable migrants made up a significant proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the 19th and 20th centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today, however…
Dalit feminist theory: a reader
"Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader reorients Indian feminism by examining the relationship between gender and caste to achieve gender justice for all women, not just women of privileged castes"--.
"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s…
"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s…