Nagaraj d r (9 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents Foreword Preface Introduction I Gandhi and Ambedkar 1 Self-purification vs self-respect on the roots of the Dalit Movement 2 The lie of a youth and the truth of an anthropologist two scales on the widening of emotional concern 3 Gandhi and the Dalit question a companion with Marx and Ambedkar 4 Two imaginary soliloquies Ambedkar and Gandhi II Politics and cultural memory 5 The cultural politics of the Dalit movement notes and reflections 6 Threefold tensions pre colonial history colonial reality and postcolonial politics notes on the making of Dalit identity 7 Violence on Dalits and the disappearance of the village 8 The problem of cultural memory 9 Misplaced anger Shrunken expectations 10 The pathology of sickle swallowing III Dalit literature 11 Against the poetics of segregation and self banishment 12 From political rage to cultural affirmation notes on the Kannada Dalit poet-activist Siddalingaiah 13 The power of poor peoples laughter 14 Between social rage and spiritual quest notes on Dalit writing in Kannada 15 Cosmologies of castes realism Dalit sensibility and the Kannada Novel 16 Social change in Kannada fiction a comparative study of a Dalit and non-Dalit classic Bibliography IndexDescribed by Ashis Nandy as the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India?s vast non-English speaking world DR Nagaraj 1954?1998 was a profound political commentator and cultural criticNagaraj?s importance lies in consolidating and advancing some of the ideas of India?s leading Dalit thinker and icon BR Ambedkar Following Ambedkar Nagaraj argues that the Dalit movement rejected the traditional Hindu world and thus dismissed untouchable pasts entirely; but he says rebels too require cultural memory Their emotions of bewilderment rage and resentment can only be transcended via a politics of affirmation  This book gives us Nagaraj?s vision of caste in relation to Dalit politics It theorizes the caste system as a mosaic of contestations centred around dignity religiosity and entitlement Examining moments of untouchable defiance Nagaraj argues out a politics of cultural affirmation within his redefinition of Dalit identity More significantly he argues against self-pity and rage in artistic imagination and for re-creating the banished worlds of gods and goddesses Nagaraj?s importance lies in suggesting a framework for an alliance of all the oppressed communities of India This involves first a reconciliation of Gandhi and Ambedkar; second a recognition that modernity has caused a technocide vis-à-vis artisans; third a reimagining of the Dalit rejection of history for an alternative reading of untouchable pasts shows that these humiliated communities possessed an autonomous cultural domainNagaraj was that rare observer of politics who did not offer standard social science fare in fact he used the phrase ?competent social scientist? to damn the person he was speaking of Not only were his themes unusual his analytical methods and quirky reliance on cultural texts for analysis were equally so He uses such material and focuses on these themes because his sensibility was shaped by the Dalit movement as much as by the time he spent scrutinizing literary texts 276 pp.…

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