Dalits in the New Millennium

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"Dalits in the New Millennium interrogates the major aspects of Dalit experience in multiple spheres and traces how Dalit politics is no longer merely content with desire for social justice but has become more assertive and aspirational in its demands. The volume represents the individual voices of the editors and contributors, who are eminent academics and activists, and situates Dalit life amidst all the major changes that have occurred over the last three decades. It aims to provide a more holistic approach to studying the community's socio-economic and political life in the new millennium and adds to the existing literature on Dalit politics, focusing especially on the changes that are taking place in the realm of electoral politics, popular culture, political economy, ideological worldview, and representation, among others"-- Provided by publisher.

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