Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India

Culture, Identity and Politics

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
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Author: Badri Narayan ISBN: 9789352800575
Publisher: SAGE Publications Publication: November 7, 2006
Imprint: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd Language: English
Author: Badri Narayan
ISBN: 9789352800575
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication: November 7, 2006
Imprint: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Language: English

This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati.

It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization.

Key feature include:

– some of the tales used to develop political consciousness at the grass-roots level;

– stories picked up from among the people themselves: reinterpreted; packaged; and disseminated orally or via pamphlets;

– how gods, heroes and other cultural resources of each caste are converted into political capital by giving them a visual image through calendars, statues, posters and memorials;

– how the BSP creates and recreates historical material to expand its electoral base.

Based on field studies and secondary information, the author outlines the politics of dissent which uses historical and cultural resources as identity markers in political mobilization. This book is invaluable for students of politics, sociology and history and all those engaged in Dalit studies.

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This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati.

It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization.

Key feature include:

– some of the tales used to develop political consciousness at the grass-roots level;

– stories picked up from among the people themselves: reinterpreted; packaged; and disseminated orally or via pamphlets;

– how gods, heroes and other cultural resources of each caste are converted into political capital by giving them a visual image through calendars, statues, posters and memorials;

– how the BSP creates and recreates historical material to expand its electoral base.

Based on field studies and secondary information, the author outlines the politics of dissent which uses historical and cultural resources as identity markers in political mobilization. This book is invaluable for students of politics, sociology and history and all those engaged in Dalit studies.

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