TY - BOOK AU - Wakankar,Milind TI - Subalternity and religion : the prehistory of Dalit empowerment in South Asia T2 - Intersections: colonial and postcolonial histories SN - 9780415778787 AV - BL2015.S6 W35 2010 U1 - 200.86940954 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Religion and social status KW - India KW - Historiography KW - Dalits KW - Social conditions KW - Religious life N1 - 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 ER -