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100 1 _aGeorge J Kunnath
245 1 0 _aRebels from the mud houses : Dalits and the making of the Maoist revolution in Bihar
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bSocial Science Press ;
_aBangalore :
_bDistributed by Orient Blackswan,
_cc2012.
300 _axviii, 247 p.
_bill., map ;
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aCommunism
650 0 _aDalits
650 0 _aSocial change
942 _cBK
999 _c61733
_d61733