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040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC
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082			_a305.5688 GAU
100	1		_aGauthaman, Raj, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDark interiors: essays on caste and dalit culture / _cRaj Gauthaman, S. Theodore Baskaran.
246			_aDark interiors
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage: _c2021
300			_axxx, 198 pages; 23cm.
500			_aRs.995/- Manohar P-1571/4.
520			_a"'Except women and dalits, I do not think there is anyone discriminated at birth.' These words give an idea of Raj Gauthaman's succinct and provocative critique, translated into English for the first time by Theodore Baskaran. The essays engage with dalit liberation politics, the relationship of dalits to Tamil history and the many strands that constitute radical dalit culture. Gauthaman discusses dalit history and what the progress of non-brahmin politics in Tamil Nadu has meant for dalits. This analysis of the alternative cultural expressions of dalits, politics, art and literature comes from essays written in 1992-2002, which remain perennial and startlingly new. The author's discussion of Iyothee Thass Pandithar, who preceded Ambedkar by 50 years, of Ambedkar and Periyar, of postmodernism and Subaltern Studies, provides a new cultural history that tells us about dalit assertion today"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aDalits--Political activity
650			_aSocial conditions -- India
700	1		_aBaskaran, S. Theodore, _etranslator.
942			_2ddc _cBK