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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a305.56 _bSRI/CA
100			_aSrinivasulu Karli
245			_aCASTE, DOMINANCE AND RESISTANCE _b: Dalit Identity Politics in South India
250			_a1
260			_aDelhi _bAakar Books _c2026
300			_g256
500			_aThis book explores the complex relationship between caste, power, and resistance in India through the lens of Dalit politics. Conceptualising caste as a system of graded inequality, it examines how caste dominance is sustained by economic control, social norms and reinforced by political and institutional authority, often through caste violence. Through an analysis of Dalit movement in South India, the book demonstrates how Dalit resistance played a transformative role in challenging entrenched hierarchies, drawing on anti-caste intellectual tradition inspired by thinkers like Mahatma Phule, B.R. Ambedkar as well as the grassroots movements that question social and political dominance, exclusion and marginalisation. Further, the book examines how collective action has forged a broader Dalit identity by transcending internal sub-caste divisions thus influencing party politics and electoral mobilisation through the formation of Dalit-led political formations and the negotiation of power within democratic institutions. However, despite these early gains, this trajectory later paved the way for processes of political cooption and accommodation on the one hand and renewed schisms within Dalit mobilisation, manifested in the form of subcaste identity assertion and demand of sub-categorisation of reservations, on the other. By situating Dalit politics at the intersection of social struggles, political regimes and electoral democracy, the book offers a nuanced analysis of how identity politics redefines caste dynamics, power structures and political agency in contemporary India.
650			_aDalits—Political activity
650			_aIndia
650			_aSocial stratification
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999			_c198706 _d198706