Contents:
  • Dalit studies: new perspectives on Indian history and society / Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana
  • The Indian Nation in its egalitarian conception / Gopal Guru
  • Probing the historical
  • Colonial archive versus colonial sociology: writing Dalit history / Ramnarayan S. Rawat
  • Social space, civil society, and Dalit agency in twentieth-century Kerala / P. Sanal Mohan
  • Dilemmas of Dalit agendas: political subjugation and self-emancipation in Telugu Country, 1910-50 / Chinnaiah Jangam
  • Making sense of Dalit sikh history / Raj Kumar Hans
  • Probing the present
  • The Dalit reconfiguration of modernity: citizens and castes in the Telugu public sphere / K. Satyanarayana
  • Questions of representation in Dalit critical discourse: Premchand and Dalit feminism / Laura Brueck
  • Social justice and the question of categorization of scheduled caste reservations: the Dandora debate in Andhra Pradesh / Sambaiah Gundimeda
  • Caste and class among the Dalits / Shyam Babu
  • From Zaat to Qaum: fluid contours of the Ravi Dasi identity in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka.