Subalternity and religion the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia / Milind Wakankar.

Author/creator Wakankar, Milind
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxii, 202 p. ; 25 cm.
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SeriesIntersections: colonial and postcolonial histories
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2009031781
ISBN9780415778787 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0415778786

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