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The flaming feet and other essays : the Dalit movement in India by Di Ār Nāgarāj; Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi; Ashis Nandy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India’s non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics—the Dalit being a self-designation for many groups in the lower castes of India. Nagaraj argues that the Dalit movement rejected the traditional Hindu world and thus dismissed untouchable pasts entirely; but he believes rebels too require cultural memory. Their emotions of bewilderment, rage, and resentment can only be transcended via a politics of affirmation. He theorizes the caste system as a mosaic of disputes about dignity, religiosity, and entitlement. Examining moments of caste defiance, he argues for a politics of cultural affirmation and creates a new cultural identity for Dalits. More significantly, he argues against self-pity and rage in artistic imagination, and for recreating the banished worlds of gods and goddesses. Nagaraj’s importance lies in consolidating and advancing some of the ideas of India’s leading Dalit thinker and icon, B. R. Ambedkar. He suggests an inclusivist framework to build an alliance of all the oppressed communities of India.

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Author

Di Ār Nāgarāj; Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi; Ashis Nandy

Publisher

Seagull Books London Ltd

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9788178243580

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Indian History

Rating

4.38 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13