Caste and emancipatory quest: ethnography of dalits in an urban neighborhood

By:

Devi, Rama

Publication details: Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.Description: xxi, 275p.: hbk.: 22 cmISBN:

9789819608317

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

338.9 DEV

Summary: The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life. The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-0832-4#overview

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	338.9 DEV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	036336

Includes References and Index.

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life. The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-96-0832-4#overview

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