On social conditions of poor and Dalits in Maharashtra.
This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule. Under the Maratha Kingdom, the Devs occupied a privileged position in the rit…
Study on the autobiographies of Dalit women from Maharashtra, India.
Study on the autobiographies of Dalit women from Maharashtra, India.
Study on the autobiographies of Dalit women from Maharashtra, India.
Study on the autobiographies of Dalit women from Maharashtra, India.
Introduction : performing precarity : sex-gender-caste/ashlil-manuski-assli -- Policing Dalits and producing tamasha in Maharashtra -- Constructing caste, desire, and danger -- Manuski, Ambedkar, and refashioning Dalits, 1920-1956 -- Singing resistance and rehumanizing poetics-p…
"Drawing on an extensive archive of Marathi sources, from publications to music to state documents, Shailaja Paik provides a social and intellectual history of Dalit women's stigmatized sexuality in the 20th century and the patriarchal efforts to sanitize it. The Vulgarity of Ca…
"Drawing on an extensive archive of Marathi sources, from publications to music to state documents, Shailaja Paik provides a social and intellectual history of Dalit women's stigmatized sexuality in the 20th century and the patriarchal efforts to sanitize it. The Vulgarity of Ca…
"Baji rao Peshwa was an extraordinary phenomenon of the eighteenth century. In a span of twenty years, from a kingdon comprising just two districts, he established an empire that stretched the length and breadth of India. The first half of the 18th century was thus stamped as th…
Issues, such as the motivations of Indian women in participating in the socio-religious reform movements and movements of religious conversion, have not yet received the attention from scholars that their significance merits. This book aims to try and redress this balance by pla…
