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.

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.