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028			_a: International Book Distrubutors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. _c: 120876 _d: 22/10/2024
082			_a305.484 PAI
100			_aPaik, Shailaja.
245			_aThe vulgarity of caste _b: dalits sexuality and humanity in modern India. _c/Shailaja Paik.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Navayana Publishing, _c, 2022.
300			_axix, 399p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b419
520			_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).
650			_aDalits for centuries
650			_aEntertainment market
650			_aDalit Tamasha
700			_aShailaja Paik
942			_cBOOK
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