01622nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801420007608200160021810000200023424500940025426000490034830000240039736500080042152009010042965000250133065000250135565000180138070000180139820241105145721.0241105b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788195539215  a: International Book Distrubutorsb: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.c: 120876d: 22/10/2024  a305.484 PAI  aPaik, Shailaja.  aThe vulgarity of casteb: dalits sexuality and humanity in modern India.c/Shailaja Paik.  aNew Delhi b: Navayana Publishing, c, 2022.  axix, 399p.c: 24cm.  b419  aTamasha is a secular, traveling, public theatre practiced predominantly by Dalits for centuries. The artform spread like a wildfire in the entertainment market in colonial Maharashtra. Its mixture of humor, sexuality, and bombast offered a forbidding combination of the commercial and the lowbrow. Central to these performances were the Dalit Tamasha women who represented both the desire and disgust of a patriarchal society.

The Vulgarity of Caste offers the first social and intellectual history of Tamasha. Drawing on untapped archival materials, ethnographies, popular writings and films, Shailaja Paik uncovers how Dalit performers, activists, and leaders negotiated the violence, brutality, exploitation and stigma in Tamasha. She puts these women at the center, as they reclaim manuski (human dignity) and transform themselves from ashlil (vulgar) to assli (authentic) and manus (human).  aDalits for centuries  aEntertainment market  aDalit Tamasha  aShailaja Paik