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Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India
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ISBN: 9352800575 1282154095 9786612154096 8132102800 9788132102809 9780761935377 0761935371 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Delhi Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE Publications

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This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The book 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. While demonstrating how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity, and then reconstructed for political mobilization, this book. - narrates some of the tales used t

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