Dalits in the new millennium

Recommended by: Rasananda Panda

Content:

Introduction: Dalit Discourse in the New Millennium / Sudha Pai, D. Shyam Babu, and Rahul Verma -- Part I Shifting Patterns of Electoral Politics -- Voting Patterns among Dalits since the 1990s / Rahul Verma and Pranav Gupta -- On the Peculiar Absence of Dalit Politics: Punjab and West Bengal / Dwaipayan Sen -- Decline of the Bahujan Samaj Party: Dalit Politics under Right-Wing Hegemony / Sudha Pai -- A Democratic Dilemma: Dalit Parties, Campaign Finance, and Coalition Politics / Michael A. Collins -- Why Are More Dalits Voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2014? / Abhinav Prakash Singh –
Part II Popular Culture, Discourse, and Protest -- Music as the Language of the Bahujan Movement: Locating the Social History of the Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti / K. Kalyani and Satnam Singh -- vi Contents -- Anti-Caste Music and Cinema / Prashant Ingole -- Portrayal of Dalits in the Media: A Study of Select Newspapers from Uttar Pradesh / Swadesh Singh -- Hierarchy in Protest: A Comparison of Dalit and Upper-Caste Agitations / Amit Ahuja and Rajkamal Singh –
Part III Transformations in Ideology and Identity -- Annihilation, Identity, Representation: Kanshi Ram and the Conundrums of Dalit Political Agency / Surinder S. Jodhka -- Reading Caste and Class Together: A Dalit-Bahujan-Left Alliance? / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya -- Towards Radical Democracy: The Dalit-Bahujan Claim for Political Power / Harish S. Wankhede -- Liberation Panthers and the Dalit Challenge to Hindutva in Tamil Nadu / Meena Kandasamy and Hugo Gorringe -- Dalit-Bahujan Politics: Crisis and Future / Badri Narayan –
Part IV Aspirations and Anxieties -- Technology in the Lives of Young Dalits / Snigdha Poonam and Samarth Bansal -- Dalit Middle Class: Aspirations, Networks, and Social Capital -- Gurram Srinivas -- The Persisting Developmental Gap: A Case for Restitution and Reparations / Amit Thorat -- Dalit Capitalism: Adversity, Opportunity, and Agency / D. Shyam Babu -- Part V Discrimination and Representation -- Do Scheduled Caste Reservations for Political Office Improve the Lives of Dalits? / Simon Chauchard and Francesca R. Jensenius -- Are Dalit Legislators Performing Their Oversight Role? Evidence from the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha and Select State Legislatures / Kaushiki Sanyal -- Why Are Some Backward Castes Demanding Scheduled Caste Reservation? / Arvind Kumar -- Measuring Caste-Based Discrimination / Victoire Girard, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, and Peter Mayer -- Dalit Suicides in India / Vikas Arya, Andrew Page, Gregory Armstrong, and Peter Mayer.