Speaking truth to power : religion, caste, and the subaltern question in India /
Religion, caste, and the subaltern question in India
edited by Manu Bhagavan and Anne Feldhaus.
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008-
- xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Companion volume issued under title: Claiming power from below.
Includes bibliographical references.
List of Illustrations p. ix Preface p. xi Introduction p. 1 1 The Bhakti Radicals and Untouchability p. 11 Gail Omvedt 2 Humanism, Religion, and the Nation: Sant Namdev as a Manavatavadin p. 30 Christian Lee Novetzke 3 Propagating the Gospel of Animal Kindness: Sacred Cows, Christians, and American Animal Welfare Activism with Reference to India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century p. 47 Janet M. Davis 4 Blindness and Sight: Moral Vision in Rajasthani Narratives p. 62 Ann Grodzins Gold 5 The Upwardly Mobile Monkey-god: Village and Urban Marutis in Maharashtra p. 78 Jeffrey M. Brackett 6 Negotiating Hierarchy and Identity: Cultural Performances on the Meaning of the Demon King Bali in Rural Maharashtra p. 92 Michael Youngblood 7 'How Can a Wife Screech and Wail?' Respectability and Bengali Women Singers' Lives p. 107 Donna M. Wulff 8 Other Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana p. 121 Gail Minault 9 Dalit Transformation, Narrative, and Verbal Art in the Tamil Novels of Bama p. 137 Paula Richman 10 Women's Empowerment through Religious Conversion: Voices of Buddhists in Nagpur, India p. 153 Laura Dudley Jenkins 11 The Buddha and the Barbers: Status, Discipline, and Dissension in Early Buddhism p. 165 Guy Welbon 12 Art and Identity: The Rise of a New Buddhist Imagery p. 180 Gary Michael Tartakov 13 Understanding Multiple Images of B.R. Ambedkar p. 205 Gopal Guru 14 Contemplating the Divine p. 221 Syed Akbar Hyder Appendix Published Writings of Eleanor Zelliot p. 231 Contributors p. 241
Focusing on caste, this volume investigates the dynamics of hierarchies, exploring how they are constructed, how they work, and how they are resisted.