Dalit Visions: The Anti Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity

By:

Gail Omvedt

Contributor(s):

OMVEDT (Gail)

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Tracts For the Times 8Publication details: Hyderabad Orient Longman Limited 1995Description: xi,112 p. PB 21.5x14 cmISBN:

8125006362

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 305.5688 OMVD

Summary: Dalit 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Donated Books	St Aloysius Library	Sociology	305.5688 OMVD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Donated by V. T. Rajshekar	D05639
George Fernandes Collections	St Aloysius Library	Sociology	305.5688 OMVD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		GF01167

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Dalit 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.

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