RT Book
T1 Deceptive majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and underground religion
T2 South Asia in the social sciences
A1 Lee, Joel ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PP Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1751333124
AB The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia. Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian projects are both advanced and undermined.
OP 335
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021)
CN 294.509542
SN 978-1-108-84382-9
SN 978-1-108-82666-2
SN 978-1-108-92019-3
K1 Hinduism : India : Lucknow
K1 Hinduism and politics : India : Lucknow
K1 Dalits : India : Lucknow
K1 Caste : Political aspects : India : Lucknow
K1 Social Integration : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Political Sociology : India : Lucknow
K1 Dalits : Political activity : India : Lucknow
K1 Caste : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Hinduism and politics ; India ; Lucknow
K1 Dalits ; India ; Lucknow ; Religion
K1 Dalits ; Political activity ; India ; Lucknow
K1 Caste ; Religious aspects ; Hinduism
K1 Caste ; Political aspects ; India ; Lucknow
K1 Social integration ; Religious aspects ; Hinduism
K1 Political sociology ; India ; Lucknow
K1 Lucknow (India) ; Politics and government
K1 Lucknow (India) ; Religion
K1 Lucknow (India) : Religious life and customs
K1 Lucknow (India) : Politics and government
DO 10.1017/9781108920193