Author: Gary Michael Tartakov
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198079361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts, this volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system, popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture in the historical and contemporary period.
Dalit Art and Visual Imagery
Author: Gary Michael Tartakov
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198079361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts, this volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system, popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture in the historical and contemporary period.
Publisher: OUP India
ISBN: 9780198079361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts, this volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system, popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture in the historical and contemporary period.
Dalit Text
Author: Judith Misrahi-Barak
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000006964
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has ‘change’ as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define. Effervescent first-person accounts, socially militant activism and sharp critiques of a little-explored literary terrain make this essential reading for scholars and researchers of social exclusion and discrimination studies, literature (especially comparative literature), translation studies, politics, human rights and culture studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000006964
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This book, companion to the much-acclaimed Dalit Literatures in India, examines questions of aesthetics and literary representation in a wide range of Dalit literary texts. It looks at how Dalit literature, born from the struggle against social and political injustice, invokes the rich and complex legacy of oral, folk and performative traditions of marginalised voices. The essays and interviews systematically explore a range of literary forms, from autobiographies, memoirs and other testimonial narratives, to poems, novels or short stories, foregrounding the diversity of Dalit creation. Showcasing the interplay between the aesthetic and political for a genre of writing that has ‘change’ as its goal, the volume aims to make Dalit writing more accessible to a wider public, for the Dalit voices to be heard and understood. The volume also shows how the genre has revolutionised the concept of what literature is supposed to mean and define. Effervescent first-person accounts, socially militant activism and sharp critiques of a little-explored literary terrain make this essential reading for scholars and researchers of social exclusion and discrimination studies, literature (especially comparative literature), translation studies, politics, human rights and culture studies.
Gods in the Time of Democracy
Author: Kajri Jain
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012889
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence. Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478012889
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence. Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”
The Gender of Caste
Author: Charu Gupta
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor. The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor. The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.
Caste and nature
Author: Mukul Sharma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091609
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091609
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.
Articulating Resistance
Author: Deeptha Achar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789382381013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Papers presented at the National Seminar on The Issues of Activism : The Artist and the Historian, held at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda during 6-8 March 2004.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789382381013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Papers presented at the National Seminar on The Issues of Activism : The Artist and the Historian, held at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda during 6-8 March 2004.
Beyond Dalit Theology
Author: Paulson Pulikottil
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506478867
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book is a critique of Dalit theology, leading to proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India. Dalit theology has ruled the roost for the last forty years in the Indian theological landscape. It has captivated the theological imagination in India in spite of other theological movements, like tribal theology, green theology, and so on, which are relatively recent and have had little impact. Despite the dominance of Dalit theology, in the last decade many writers have questioned its social impact and theological efficacy. This book takes advantage of the critique to make some proposals for doing a theology of social transformation in India. It explores new ways of doing Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. In addition, it argues for the need of a public theology in the changing religious-political scenario in India.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506478867
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book is a critique of Dalit theology, leading to proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India. Dalit theology has ruled the roost for the last forty years in the Indian theological landscape. It has captivated the theological imagination in India in spite of other theological movements, like tribal theology, green theology, and so on, which are relatively recent and have had little impact. Despite the dominance of Dalit theology, in the last decade many writers have questioned its social impact and theological efficacy. This book takes advantage of the critique to make some proposals for doing a theology of social transformation in India. It explores new ways of doing Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. In addition, it argues for the need of a public theology in the changing religious-political scenario in India.
Subjects of Modernity
Author: Saurabh Dube
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1928357458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1928357458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Bhimayana
Author: Durgabai Vyam
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788189059354
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Tegneserie - graphic novel. On the life and achievements of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1891-1956, Indian statesman and social reformer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788189059354
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Tegneserie - graphic novel. On the life and achievements of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1891-1956, Indian statesman and social reformer
International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives
Author: Randolph Leigh, Patricia
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1615207945
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1615207945
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities"--Provided by publisher.