Wakankar, Milind.

Subalternity and religion the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / [electronic resource] : Milind Wakankar. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 202 p.) - Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories ; 2 . - Intersections (London, England) ; 2. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.

Preface -- Introduction : the question of a prehistory -- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique -- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion -- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay -- The vicissitudes of historical religion -- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir -- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi -- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari -- The prehistory of historical religion -- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities -- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram -- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Religion and social status--Historiography.--India
Dalits--Historiography.
Dalits--Social conditions.
Dalits--Religious life.


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