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Dark interiors: essays on caste and dalit culture

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sage Publications India 2021 New DelhiDescription: xxx, 192 p. Index bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9789381345634
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5688 G2D2
Summary: 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 with Tamil history and the many strands that constitute radical Dalit culture. Gauthaman discusses the Dalit history and what the progress of non-brahmin politics in Tamil Nadu has meant for Dalits. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/dark-interiors/book277344 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. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/dark-interiors/book277344
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Originally published in Tamil.

Table of Contents

Preface by Raj Gauthaman
Translator’s Note by S. Theodore Baskaran
Introduction by V. Geetha
The Dalits of Tamil Nadu and Dalit Literature
Dalit Culture
Periyapuranam: Hierarchy and Inversion
Brahmins, Vellalas and the Tamil Country
Dravidian Literature: Radical Features and Worldview
Postmodernism and Dalit Ideology
From the Subaltern Perspective: Re-Examination and Social Transformation
Religion (Hinduism) from the Dalit Perspective
The Times of Iyothee Thass (1845–1914)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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 with Tamil history and the many strands that constitute radical Dalit culture. Gauthaman discusses the Dalit history and what the progress of non-brahmin politics in Tamil Nadu has meant for Dalits.

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/dark-interiors/book277344

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.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/dark-interiors/book277344

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