Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits ("untouchables") and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of Dalits in the print culture of colonial north India, Charu Gupta enters new territory by looking at images of Dalit women as both victims and vamps, the construction of Dalit masculinities, religious conversion as an alternative to entrapment in the Hindu caste system, and the plight of indentured labor.The Gender of Caste uses print as a critical tool to examine the depictions of Dalits by colonizers, nationalists, reformers, and Dalits themselves and shows how differentials of gender were critical in structuring patterns of domination and subordination.

The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print (Global South Asia)

History

Gupta, Charu

Asia

University of Washington Press

This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other’s territorial waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics of boundaries, it reveals how these fisherfolk create alternative maps and a new world of ‘debordering’. These fishworkers and coastal conflicts have been subjects of everyday news, but never a subject of serious study. A first of its kind, the present book breaks new ground by examining the journeys of these fisherfolk and coastal conflicts in South Asia from several overlapping but distinct perspectives: declining sea resources, security and border anxieties, suffering of the fisherfolk, their ambiguous identities and transnational movements. The book is also innovative in terms of methodology: it is fisherfolk-centric as it marginalizes the concerns of the state from the perspective of security; it questions the very basis of security and argues for a shift in its perspective.

Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia

Sharma, Mukul

Reference

Routledge India

The book series "Smart Computing Applications" provides a platform for researchers, academicians and practitioners to exchange ideas on recent theoretical and applied data science and computing technologies research, with a particular attention to the possible applications of such technologies in the industry, especially in the field of mechanical and industrial engineering. This series serves as a valuable resource for graduate, postgraduate, doctoral students, researchers, academicians and industry professionals.

Knowledge Engineering for Modern Information Systems: Methods, Models and Tools (Smart Computing Applications, 3)

Computers & Technology

Kautish, Sandeep

Nanda, Saurav

Agrawal, Prateek

Madaan, Vishu

Sharma, Anand

Computer Science

de Gruyter

An examination of the prehistory of the present day tensions between Hindus and Muslims showing how gender was central to the establishment of Hindu identity and how deep-seated were the separatist and communal developments which interacted with high politics to create the division in India.

Sexuality, obscenity, community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu public in colonial India (Permanent Black monographs. The opus 1 series)

Permanent Black

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