The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India

Joshil K. Abraham is an independent researcher. He is currently working on the Open University project for Cornerstone OnDemand. Judith Misrahi-Barak is Associate Professor at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She teaches in the English Department and is a member of the research center EMMA.

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Shifting the Gaze

Introduction

Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak

From Spectatorship to Agency

1. Dalit Representation in Hindi Cinema

Harish S. Wankhede

2. To Kill or To Allow to Live: Caste Necropolitics, Ozhivudivasathe Kali, and Malayalam Cinema

Rajesh James, Binu K. D., & Aswin Prasanth

3. The Oppositional Bahujan Agency

Jyoti Nisha

4. Magizhchi! ‘The Casteless Collective’ and the Sensorial Exscription

Dickens Leonard and Manju Edachira

Making the Invisible Visible

5. Historiography and Historiophoty in Anubhav Sinha’s Article 15

Debjani Banerjee

6. Arakshan and Article 15: Is there any Transformation in the ‘Brahminical Gaze’?

Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis

7. Visualising the Invisible: Decoding Caste Pride and the Casteist Slur in Bollywood Films

Sumit Rajak

The Bigger Picture

8. Over-the-top: Online Media, Chromatics, and the Transnational Travels of Caste

Purnima Mankekar and Sucharita Kanjilal

9. Indian Cinema, Hunger, and Food: Family, Class, and Caste

Swarnavel Eswaran

Caste and Gender

10. Re-cast(e)ing the New Woman: Caste and Gender in Contemporary Indian Cinema

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora

11. The Construction and Representation of Lower Caste Women in Bollywood Films

Farhana Naaz

12. P. K. Rosy and Devaki Bai: Cast(e)ing the Malayalam Silent Film Actresses

Geetha

13. Examining the Domain of Caste, Gender, and Sexuality through Select Films of Jayan K. Cherian

Ved Prakash

Caste on Trial

14. Dalit Subjectivity, Democracy, and Radical Equality or, What Bollywood Could Learn from Ambedkar

Chinmaya Lal Thakur

15. The Constitution of/and Caste: Portrayal of Caste and Legal Justice in Three Contemporary Indian Films by Savarna Filmmakers

Rituparna Sengupta

16. Beyond Violence and Non-violence: A Study of Dalit Resistance and Accommodation in Cinematic Popular Justice

Ram Kumar Thakur

The Entanglements of Caste and Nature

17. The Caste of Nature: Wholesome Bodies and Parasites in Bimal Roy’s Sujata and Gogu Shyamala’s ‘A Beauteous Light’

Nicole Thiara

18. The Pig, the Black Sparrow, and the Sheep: Human-Animal Entanglements in Fandry and Khwada

Shalmali Jadhav

19. Landless, Homeless, and Nameless: Locating Caste in the Environmental In/Justice in Perariyathavar

P. Rajitha Venugopal

Not Two but Three States

20. Framing Local Legends and the Caste Matrix in the Tamil Cinema of the late 1980s

Stalin Rajangam and P. Aadhavan

21. The Alienation of the Other: Examining Marginal Narratives in Select Punjabi Films

Amandeep Kaur & Sahil Sharma

22. Caste, Voyeurism and Kannada New Wave Cinema

Mahima Raj C.

From Closer Up

23. Exploring Caste on Screen and Beyond: A Study of Chomana Dudi

Jaishree Kapur

24. Screening Caste: ‘Untouchable’ Body, Labour and Remuneration in Lagaan

Purnachandra Naik

25. The Untouchable Rajputs of Padmaavat and Beyond: A Cas(t)e Study

Tanya Singh

26. Masaan, a Tale of Forbidden Love

Ravinder Singh Rana

27. Beyond Narratives of Modernity, Pain and Pathos: Dalit Aesthetic in Kabali and Kaala

Reju George Mathew

28. ‘Ella Manusanum inga onnu illa’: Imag(in)ing the Claustrophobia of Caste in Pariyerum Perumal

B. Geetha

29. Caste, Coast, and Christianity in Kerala: Analysing the Visual Representation of Latin Catholics in Ee.Ma.Yau.

Grace Mariam Raju

Filmography

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Index