TY - BOOK AU - George J Kunnath AU - George J Kunnath TI - Rebels from the mud houses: : Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar SN - 9788187358527 U1 - 324.254075 KUN PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Social Sciences KW - Dalits -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century KW - India -- Social conditions -- 1947 N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -