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Like other regions of the Indian subcontinent, colonial Bengal saw considerably organized Dalit political movements against its historically dominant upper caste Hindus. With the Partition of Bengal and the winning of India's and Pakistan's freedom from British rule in 1947 howe…

Sites of Struggle examines the representation of marginality in contemporary literature that strategizes its own ‘difference’, specifically ‘Beur’ literature, written in French by authors of North African origin and Hindi Dalit literature, written by members of the untouchable c…

This dissertation tracks the emergence of literary narratives by and about Dalit communities in India from the 1950s to the 1990s. Examining the literary texts from a historical materialist perspective, I explore their articulation of self-identity and resistance against the cas…

What is public in public theology, from the sites of subalternity in India? And what might a theological account of such a subaltern public look like? These questions are pivotal to this research. These questions were identified because there has been an ambiguity regarding the …