01649nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100120008008200230009210000160011524500860013126000440021730000310026144000270029252008820031965000100120165000100121165000110122165000130123265000220124565000280126765000270129565000310132270000180135320241107124540.0220726b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a8125006362  cAL  aEnglish  223a305.5688bOMVD  aGail Omvedt  aDalit Visions: The Anti Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity  aHyderabadbOrient Longman Limitedc1995  axi,112 p.bPBc21.5x14 cm.  aTracts For the Times 8  aDalit visions explores and critiques the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism; which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation. It shows that even secular minds remain imprisoned within this brahmanical vision, and the language of secular discourse is often steeped in a Hindu ethos. The tract looks at alternative traditions, nurtured within Dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looking at Indian society and its history. While seeking to understand the varied Dalit visions that have sought to alter the Terms of the dominant order, this tract persuades us to reconsider our ideas, listen to those voices which we often refuse to hear and understand the visions which seek to change the world in which Dalits live.  aIndia  aCaste  aDalits  aHinduism  aSocial conditions  aPolitics and government  aCivil rights movements  aDalits--Political activity  aOMVEDT (Gail)