Rebels from the mud houses : Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Bangalore : Social Science Press ; Distributed by Orient Blackswan, c2012Description: xviii, 247 p. ill., mapISBN: 9788187358527; 8187358521Subject(s): Communism | Dalits | Social changeDDC classification: 324.254075 Summary: This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India.
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