TY - BOOK AU - Mohan, P Sanal. AU - P. Sanal Mohan . TI - Modernity of slavery : : struggles against caste inequality in colonial Kerala SN - 9780198099765 U1 - 305.51 MOH PY - 2015/// CY - , New Delhi, India PB - : Oxford University Press KW - Dalits KW - Dalits India Kerala History KW - Dalits Social conditions KW - Intouchables Kerala N1 - Colonial transformations : situating the experience of slave castes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kerala Discourses and constructions of slavery in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kerala Discourses of struggles against inequalities : Dalit movements in the early twentieth-century Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabba and the imagining of equality in twentieth-century Kerala Memory and experience discourses of slavery Discourses of history and the making of community N2 - This text pushes further the debates on colonial modernity by bringing to the fore Dalit experience in Kerala. The question of social identity is addressed in this study by analysing the problems of Dalit identity in Kerala. The book is a product of interdisciplinary research based on new archival and ethnographic materials which contributes to debates on colonial modernity ER -