Dalit Women's Education in Modern India

Paik, Shailaja

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“…There was also a real fear of transgressing caste boundaries for respectable uppercaste elite women. (Paik, 2014a(Paik, , 2014b.…”

Section: Caste Prejudice and The Making Of Social Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They set the norms, which produced further contestations. The tensions and failure in Indian feminism laid out the conditions for the emergence of Dalit subjectivity, agency, and separate Dalit women's organizations since colonial times (Paik, 2014a(Paik, , 2014b. Dalit women faced numerous difficulties, yet their collective and individual experiences also enabled numerous possibilities and choices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Rather, their networks of negotiations, abilities, and skills to transform relationships of social injustice were constituted, and enabled through their specific subordinated position. Dalit women's agency belonged to them as well as to the culturally specific and historically contingent arrangement of power in which they were located (Paik, 2009a(Paik, , 2009b(Paik, , 2014a(Paik, , 2014b(Paik, , 2016(Paik, , 2017c.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…3 | GENERATIVE GENDER AND " NEW" SUBJECTS OF HISTORY My work has examined how Dalit radicals played a creative role in radically democratizing gender norms and indeed, deploying gender as a generative activity (Paik, 2014a(Paik, , 2014b(Paik, , 2016 to imagine new forms of public emancipation during colonial times. Historically, alongside the fight for equality, respect, and freedom from double colonialism-internal (Brahmani) and external (British)-Non-Brahmans (like Jotirao Phule in Maharashtra and Maniammai and Periyar in South India) and Dalits (especially Dr. B.R.…”

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“…Anthropologists and Sociologists, because of their methodological tools of engaging ethnographies, have immersed in the vernacular lifeworlds of Dalit women and have been more sensitive to the complexities of Dalit women's experiences, than historians who have traditionally relied disproportionately upon the objectivizing archive produced by the colonial and postcolonial states. My book Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination (Paik, 2014a) provides the first historical analyses of Dalit women's ideas, actions, and lives in 20th century Maharashtra (Western India). While some historians have studied Dalits resistance to both colonial and Brahmanical hegemonic discourses and power and their quest for their own modernity, there is little study of how women fought against double patriarchy-both private and public.…”

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The rise of new Dalit women in Indian historiography

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Especially since the political turmoil of the 1990s, scholars have focused on the marginalized histories of Dalit ("Untouchable") communities in India. Yet these investigations also concentrated exclusively on the male Dalit community. Only recently, however, scholars have focused their attention on Dalit women as "subjects" of study. Dalits are dominated and dominating at the same time. My article examines Dalit women's lifeworlds under double patriarchy in colonial and post-colonial India to highlight the contributions of scholars in understanding how different Dalit women are negotiating, challenging, politicizing, and transforming conditions of their discriminated Dalit status: as sexed women and caste Dalit. I theorize and focus on ways "new" Dalit women engaged with the incremental intersecting technologies of caste, class, gender, sexuality, and community to carve out their subjectivity, agency, respectability, and honor in modern India. To this end, I dwell on a variety of themes-generative gender and "new" Dalit women, upper-caste prejudice, community, patriarchy, honor, and formal education to illuminate the changing sociality and complexities of Dalit women's worlds. My review article demonstrates that Dalit women's universal perspectives and historical and political practices are deeply democratic and as such have the potential of engaging in inclusive and productive politics, building solidarities, and actually reshaping the larger fields of South Asian Studies, India Studies, Dalit Studies, and Gender Studies.

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“…There was also a real fear of transgressing caste boundaries for respectable uppercaste elite women. (Paik, 2014a(Paik, , 2014b.…”

Section: Caste Prejudice and The Making Of Social Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Caste Prejudice and The Making Of Social Differencementioning

confidence: 99%