Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Rama Devi’s Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood (Springer, 2025) is a deeply engaged ethnographic exploration of how caste, despite predictions of its decline under urban modernity, continues to structure everyday life, aspirations, and politics in India’s metropolitan contexts. Based in Ashanagar, a pseudonymous neighborhood in Delhi, the book presents an ambitious attempt to examine the interplay between caste, neoliberal urban transformations, and Dalit struggles for emancipation. It achieves this through a combination of fine-grained ethnographic detail, critical theoretical engagement, and a reflective commitment to Ambedkarite thought.
Authors: Ratan Sarkar, Santhosh Juvvaka
Institutions: Tezpur University, Assam Don Bosco University
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415771375
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