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Prashad, Vijay.

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Revolting labor: The making of the Balmiki community. (Volumes I and II).

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Revolting labor: The making of the Balmiki community. (Volumes I and II)./
作者:	Prashad, Vijay.
面頁冊數:	419 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2527.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-08A.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9501535

Revolting labor: The making of the Balmiki community. (Volumes I and II).
Prashad, Vijay.

Revolting labor: The making of the Balmiki community. (Volumes I and II). - 419 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2527.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 1994.

Revolting Labor is an anthropological history of an untouchable community who live in the hinterland of Delhi. The Balmikis, who as Chuhras and Bhangis were once agricultural laborers, migrated to the cities of north India in the 19th. century to work in the new sanitation departments. Using a vast array of sources, including government documents, fiction, songs, oral histories, religious tracts and an ethnographic investigation, this study traces the journey of the untouchables, their recast lives in urban shanties, and their attempts to create cultural forms adequate to their new location.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

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520 $a In our modern world, freedom is considered to be a self-evident condition of all people--if not in their lives, then at the very least in their dreams. The untouchables of colonial India did dream of freedom, but their 'freedom' was quite different from the freedom envisaged for them by elite Indian nationalists. The latter considered political emancipation to be the epitomy of freedom itself, while untouchables struggled for political and human emancipation. The tension between these two notions of 'freedom' is precisely what sustains the political battles in India today.
520 $a Revolting Labor was made possible by three developments. First, the demise of union politics among sweepers; the demand for higher wages eroded the political force of the unions, who now negotiate for insignificant and transitory gains. Second, the crystallization of an alliance between Hindu fundamentalist political organizations and the Balmiki community, notably in the latter's participation in the communal carnage against Muslims since 1978. Third, a revival of Dr. Ambedkar's ideas and Dr. Ambedkar as an icon since the mid-1980s among radical untouchables. These processes provided this study with a force-field between past and present as well as brought the lives of the untouchables to the center of the research and presentation.
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