Modernity of slavery : struggles against caste inequality in colonial Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanal Mōhan (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Dalits > India > Kerala > History.
Dalits > India > Kerala > Social conditions.
Dalits.
Dalits > Social conditions.
India > Kerala.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xix, 345 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Colonial transformations : situating the experience of slave castes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kerala
  • Discourses and constructions of slavery in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Kerala
  • Discourses of struggles against inequalities : Dalit movements in the early twentieth-century
  • Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabba and the imagining of equality in twentieth-century Kerala
  • Memory and experience discourses of slavery
  • Discourses of history and the making of community.