Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-35(ii) Course Name: Dalit Studies: History & Popular Culture |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Towards Dalit Studies: Sources and Approaches of the Dalit Studies; Dalits and History: Methodological and Theoretical Questions; Indian Society and Origins of the Dalit Problem – Varna, Caste and Untouchability; Problems of Depressed Classes – Social, Religious, Educational, Cultural, Economic and Political | |
| 2 | Caste and Academic Discourses: Caste as a Category and its History; Colonial Interpretations – Orientalist Discourse; Nationalist Discourse and their Use of Caste and its Politicization; Caste and Historiography – Marxist, Nationalist and Subaltern; Caste and Social Change – Sociological Debates on Sanskritization, Desanskritization and Dalitization Paradigms | |
| 3 | Dalits, Historiography and Dalit Literature: Writings of Jotirao Phule, Ayothee Dass and B.R. Ambedkar; Popular Dalit Histories – Rewriting 1857, Reassessing National Movement; Fresh Historiography on the Lower Caste Movements; Dalit Autobiographies: Daya Pawar, Om Prakash Valmiki and Others | |
| 4 | Dalits and the Issues of Gender, Class, Religion and Culture: Gender and Dalit Feminism; Print, Media and Dalits – Representations of Male and Female Dalit Bodies; Labour Movements and Dalits; Communalism and Dalits; Issue of Conversions; Dalit Voices and Dalit Culture in Counter-Public Spheres | |
