saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation Badri Narayan creator text bibliography cau New Delhi SAGE Publications 2009 monographic eng

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xiii, 195 p. : ill., 22cm(pbk) Introduction : pastness and politics -- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village -- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics -- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting -- Creating popular politics : caste histories and BJP's electoral discourse -- Legend war : mapping the political mobilisation of the Nishads -- The politics of cultural resources : the Mushahars of North India -- Saffronisation of a Dalit hero : the story of Salhes of North Bihar -- The path traversed and the way ahead. by Badri Narayan Includes bibliographical references and index Bharatiya Janata Party. Dalits India Political activity Dalits India Social conditions 324.25405 9788178299068 ENG-94650 DBAD / PUB dpl 081107 20090804144515.0 English