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LEADER: 01741cam a22003018a 4500
001 2009031781
003 DLC
005 20100810094334.0
008 090803s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780415778787 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9780203859650 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aBL2015.S6$bW35 2010
082 00 $a200.86/940954$222
100 1 $aWakankar, Milind.
245 10 $aSubalternity and religion :$bthe prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia /$cMilind Wakankar.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
263 $a0912
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aIntersections: colonial and postcolonial histories ;$v2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Introduction: The question of a prehistory -- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique -- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion -- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay -- The vicissitudes of historical religion -- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir -- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi -- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari -- The prehistory of historical religion -- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities -- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram -- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.
650 0 $aReligion and social status$zIndia$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aDalits$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aDalits$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aDalits$xReligious life.