Dalit Women

S. Anandhi is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. Karin Kapadia is Associate at the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. INTRODUCTION: We Ask You to Rethink: Different Dalit Women and their Subaltern Politics Part I: IMAGINING A NEW DALIT WOMEN’S POLITICS 1. FOREWORD: Dalits, Dalit Women and the Indian State 2. For Another Difference: Agency, Representation and Dalit Women in Contemporary India Part II: DALIT WOMEN’S CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF CASTE DIFFERENCE AND THEIR MEANS OF COLLECTIVIZATION 3. Gendered Negotiations of Caste Identity: Dalit Women’s Activism in Rural Tamil Nadu 4. Liberation Panthers and Pantheresses? Gender and Dalit Party Politics in South India 5. Microcredit Self-Help Groups and Dalit Women: Overcoming or Essentializing Caste Difference? Part III: A BROKEN EMPOWERMENT? ARE WOMEN STILL TRAPPED BY CASTE AND PATRIARCHY 6. Dalit Women, Rape and the Revitalisation of Patriarchy? 7. Different Dalit Women Speak Differently: Unravelling, through an Intersectional Lens, Narratives of Agency and Activism from Everyday Life in Rural Uttar Pradesh 8. Subsidising Capitalism and Male Labour: The Scandal of Unfree Dalit Female Labour Relations Part IV: RELIGION AS DALIT POLITICAL PRACTICE 9. Transformation and the Suffering Subject: Caste-Class and Gender in Slum Pentecostal Discourse 10. Improper Politics: The Praxis of Subalterns in Chennai AFTERWORD: The Burden of Caste: Scholarship, Democratic Movements and Activism