Writing Caste/Writing Gender Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonies
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Sharmila Rege
Zubaan Books
424 pages, Rs 395
Reissued as part of the Zubaan Classics series, this is a powerful counter-narrative to mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the 20th century. Excluded from political and cultural spheres, Dalit women’s movements over the past decade have sought to transform both Dalit and feminist politics in India. They have fought against the reproduction of caste within modern spaces like universities, bureaucracies and within the women’s movement as well as women’s studies.
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