TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Channa, Subhadra Mitra  
TI  - Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on Caste in India
SN  - 9788132118022
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - Sage
KW  - Social Science
N1  - 	Acknowledgements --
Introduction: Looking up at caste : discrimination in everyday life in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa --
Theorizing marginality --
The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher --
Atrocities and segregation in an urban social structure / Nandu Ram --
Continuity and change in "ex-untouchable" community of south India / Joan P. Mencher --
A reading of "untouchable : the autobiography of an Indian outcaste" / Subhadra Mitra Channa --
On being an untouchable in India : a materialist perspective / Joan P. Mencher --
Conversion of upper castes into lower castes : a process of asprashyeekaran / Shyamlal --
Dalits to benefit from globalisation lessons from the past for the present / A Ramaiah --
Doing fieldwork among the dalits --
Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up / Joan P. Mencher --
Becoming a dhobi / Subhadra Mitra Channa --
Religion and gender --
Dancing the goddess : possession and caste / Karin Kapadia --
The Bible and dalits / James Massey --
Rediscovering god Iyothee Thassar and emancipatory Buddhism / G. Aloysius --
Religion, social space and identity / P. Sanal Mohan --
Dalit women --
Dalit women in struggle : transforming pain into power / Ruth Manorama --
Dalit women : a critical appraisal --
Dalit women's lives --
Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Kalpana Kannabiran, Vasanth Kannabiran --
Fighting the system : dalit responses to opression --
Climax! : the encounter of Dalits and Hindus / Vasant Moon --
Theyyam myth : an embodiment of protest / J.J. Pallath --
Documenting dissent / Badri Narayan --
The satnamis of chhattisgarh / Saurabh Dube --
Dissenting the hegemony by scheduled castes in south India / G.K. Karanth --
Reservations and new caste alliances in India / Walter Fernandes --
Conclusions / Joan P. Mencher
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