Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India : culture, identity, and politics / Badri Narayan.
By: Narayan, Badri.
Series: Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge. Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006Edition: Vol.5.Description: 186 p.ISBN: 9780761935377 .Subject(s): Dalits -- Political activity -- India -- Uttar Pradesh | Women heroes -- Mythology -- Political aspects -- India -- Uttar PradeshDDC classification: 305.568809542 Summary: This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization.
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