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100 1 _aMani, Braj Ranjan.
_918561
245 1 0 _aDebrahmanising history :
_bdominance and resistance in Indian society /
_cBraj Ranjan Mani.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bManohar Publishers & Distributors,
_c2005.
300 _a456 p. ;
_c23 cm.
505 0 _aHistorical roots of Brahmanic dominance and Shramanic resistance -- Buddhist India : against caste and Brahmanism -- Medieval Mukti movements of the subaltern saint-poets -- Colonialism, and birth of Vedic-Brahmanic Nationalism -- Phule's struggle against Brahmanical Colonialism -- Guru, Iyothee, Periyar, Acchutanand : different strategies, one goal -- Nationalist power politics, excluded masses and the Gandhi-Ambedkar debate -- Epilogue : institutionalised discrimination from the past to the 'Democratic' present.
650 0 _aDalits
_xHistory.
_918562
650 0 _aDalits
_xHistoriography.
_918563
651 0 _aIndia
_xCivilization.
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942 _cWB16
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