TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raj Gauthaman
TI  - Dark interiors: essays on caste and dalit culture
SN  - 9789381345634
U1  - 305.568 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - caste; caste India ; Dalits Political activity
N1  - First Published 2021; index
N2  - ‘Except women and dalits, I do not think there is anyone discriminated at birth.’ These words give an idea of Raj Gauthaman’s succinct and provocative critique, translated into English for the first time by Theodore Baskaran. The essays engage with dalit liberation politics, the relationship of dalits with Tamil history and the many strands that constitute radical dalit culture. Gauthaman discusses dalit history and what the progress of non-brahmin politics in Tamil Nadu has meant for dalits. This analysis of the alternative cultural expressions of dalits, politics, art and literature comes from essays written in 1992–2002, which remain perennial and startlingly new.
ER  -