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Wakankar, Milind

Subalternity and religion the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia - London Routledge 2010 - xii,202p. 25 cm. - Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 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.

ISBN: 9780415778787

LCCN: 2009031781

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA981023 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015351075 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and social status--Historiography.--India
Dalits--Historiography.
Dalits--Social conditions.
Dalits--Religious life.

LC Class. No.: BL2015.S6 / W35 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 200.86940954 / WA-S