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Dalit Studies and Dalit Movements in India: Rationale, Hierarchy and Typology

Dalit Studies and Dalit Movements in India: Rationale, Hierarchy and Typology

Kumar, Vivek

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032130946
ISBN13: 9781032130941
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume seeks to provide a philosophical and theoretical foundation for Dalit studies. It begins by formulating a philosophical and theoretical definition of the term 'Dalit', along with its empirical characteristics--structural location; the cumulative and collective nature of exclusion; the temporal history of exclusion; and the evolution and identification of icons and cultural symbols within Dalit society. The volume studies the Dalits through the lens of social mobility; highlights the triple exploitation of Dalit women; presents an epistemic and theoretical framework for evolving a 'Dalit perspective' and its functions to understand social reality from the point of view of Dalit experience; as an integral part of Dalit studies it provides a framework to understand Ambedkar's thought and philosophy; dynamics of his movements; and engages with the different facets of the Dalit movement from local to global. Lucid, accessible, and thought-provoking, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social exclusion and discrimination studies, sociology, law and human rights, and South Asian studies.

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