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Author Gupta, Charu, author.

Title The gender of caste : representing Dalits in print / Charu Gupta.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Global South Asia
Global South Asia.
Summary "Caste and gender are forms of social difference that typically have been addressed in isolation from each other: a presumptive maleness is present in most studies of Dalits, and a presumptive upper-casteness is present in many feminist studies of colonial India. The Gender of Caste enters new territory in its exploration of the gender of caste through representations of Dalits in print media in colonial north India. Among its subjects are images of Dalit women as victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured servants. An array of textual and pictorial material pertaining to Dalits is drawn from reformist, popular, and didactic literature; police reports; missionary records; and cartoons. The book shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination. Through a gendered Dalit perspective, it historicizes axes of gender, caste, class, and community identities. Representations in print are used as a critical tool to examine depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-320) and index.
Contents Introduction: Gendering Dalits -- Dirty "other" vamp : (mis)representing Dalit women -- Paradoxes of victimhood : iconographies of suffering, sympathy, and subservience -- Dalit Viranganas : (en)gendering the Dalit reinvention of 1857 -- Feminine, criminal, or manly? : imaging Dalit masculinities -- Intimate and embodied desires : religious conversions and Dalit women -- Goddesses and women's songs : negotiating Dalit popular religion and culture -- Caste, indentured women, and the Hindi public sphere -- Glossary.
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Subject Dalit women -- India, North -- Public opinion.
Dalit women.
North India.
Public opinion.
Dalit women -- India, North -- History -- Sources.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Caste -- India, North.
Caste.
Sex role -- India, North.
Sex role.
Public opinion -- India, North.
Dalits in literature.
Dalits in literature.
Dalits -- India, North -- Social conditions.
Dalits.
Social conditions.
India, North -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Other Form: Original 9780295995649 0295995645 (DLC) 2015035762 (OCoLC)933273624
ISBN 9780295806563 electronic book
0295806567 electronic book
9780295995649
0295995645
Standard No. 40025926464