Rebels from the mud houses : Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar /George J Kunnath
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2018Description: xviii, 247 pages ;24 cmISBN: 9788187358527Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Dalits -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century.DDC classification: 324.254075 KUNItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Maoist Revolution in Perspective --
chapter 2 Submerged Violences: Dalits, Landlessness, and Subordination in Bihar --
chapter 3 From the Mud Houses of Dumari: Revolutionary Murmurings and Dalit Militancy --
chapter 4 Bonded Labourer to Maoist Guerrilla: Life Story of a Dalit Revolutionary --
chapter 5 Negotiating Powers: Dalits and Shifting Mobilizations --
chapter 6 Production and Reproduction of Violence: State, Senas and Maoists --
chapter 7 Conclusions: An Anthropology of Revolution.
This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.
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