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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aDivya Dwivedi
245			_aINDIAN PHILOSOPHY, INDIAN REVOLUTION ON CASTE AND POLITICS
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260			_aUK _bWestland _c2024
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500			_aA REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE TO THE MISLEADING SPIRITUALISED IMAGE OF INDIA THROUGH ANTI-CASTE POLITICAL THOUGHT In their brave and challenging book, grounded in political science and the Continental philosophical tradition, Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan engage with the resurgence of upper-caste supremacism in India and its justification via the legacy of 'the Aryan doctrine and Hindu nationalism. Their essays were written from 2016 to 2023, when Indias democratic institutions were subverted and caste-based oppression overflowed into public space—killing and menacing minorities, women, students, the media and lower castes of all religions. This book chronicles the ascending oppession of democracy in India, a veritable biography of authoritarianism. Dwivedi and Mohan reject simplistic accounts of Indias politics as the opposition between 'Hindu majoritarian nationalism and 'the religious minorities, or between 'Hindu fundamentalism and 'religious pluralism. They propose instead a genuinely transformative account of Indian politics, grounded in political philosophy and in the lower-caste majority position. What does revolution mean where the constitutional promise of equality is betrayed daily by the millennia-old inequality of caste? What does politics mean where religion serves as the justification for descent-based enslavement and indignity? Revolution has only one sense in India, the annihilation of caste; and 'citizen has only one sense, the people of the state shedding caste and racism...
650			_aSocial sciences, sociology & anthropology
650			_aGroups of people
650			_aClassTheory
650			_aPrinciples of stratification
650			_aCaste systems
650			_aHistory and geography
650			_aAsia
650			_aIndia and neighboring south Asian countries
700			_aShaj Mohan _aMael Montevil (ed.)
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