TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhagavan,Manu Belur
AU  - Feldhaus,Anne
TI  - Speaking truth to power: religion, caste, and the subaltern question in India 
SN  - 9780195693058
AV  - BL 1237.58 S741 2008
PY  - 2008///-
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Dalits 
KW  - Dalits
KW  - India
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Vida religiosa
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Religión
KW  - Vida intelectual
N1  - Companion volume issued under title: Claiming power from below; Includes bibliographical references; List of Illustrations p. ix
Preface p. xi
Introduction p. 1
1 The Bhakti Radicals and Untouchability p. 11 
Gail Omvedt
2 Humanism, Religion, and the Nation: Sant Namdev as a Manavatavadin p. 30 
Christian Lee Novetzke
3 Propagating the Gospel of Animal Kindness: Sacred Cows, Christians, and American Animal Welfare Activism with Reference to India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century p. 47 
Janet M. Davis
4 Blindness and Sight: Moral Vision in Rajasthani Narratives p. 62 
Ann Grodzins Gold
5 The Upwardly Mobile Monkey-god: Village and Urban Marutis in Maharashtra p. 78 
Jeffrey M. Brackett
6 Negotiating Hierarchy and Identity: Cultural Performances on the Meaning of the Demon King Bali in Rural Maharashtra p. 92 
Michael Youngblood
7 'How Can a Wife Screech and Wail?' Respectability and Bengali Women Singers' Lives p. 107 
Donna M. Wulff
8 Other Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana p. 121 
Gail Minault
9 Dalit Transformation, Narrative, and Verbal Art in the Tamil Novels of Bama p. 137 
Paula Richman
10 Women's Empowerment through Religious Conversion: Voices of Buddhists in Nagpur, India p. 153 
Laura Dudley Jenkins
11 The Buddha and the Barbers: Status, Discipline, and Dissension in Early Buddhism p. 165 
Guy Welbon
12 Art and Identity: The Rise of a New Buddhist Imagery p. 180 
Gary Michael Tartakov
13 Understanding Multiple Images of B.R. Ambedkar p. 205 
Gopal Guru
14 Contemplating the Divine p. 221 
Syed Akbar Hyder
Appendix Published Writings of Eleanor Zelliot p. 231
Contributors p. 241
N2  - Focusing on caste, this volume investigates the dynamics of hierarchies, exploring how they are constructed, how they work, and how they are resisted
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