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Accepted Paper
Dalit Identity and its Economic, Cultural and Political Contexts
Srinivas Gurram
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Paper short abstract
This paper focuses on changing contexts and articulations of Dalit identity historically.
Paper long abstract
Dalit identity is an outcome of various socio-cultural, economic and political developments. Articulations of Dalit identity both segmentary as well as wholistic have emerged in a political identity of Dalits today. A historical accounting of its varied usages reveals the political foregrounding that dominated the economic and cultural contexts of marginality.
The contemporary understanding of Dalit identity is essentially a political present with an equal emphasis on cultural and economic pasts and futures. Thus an analysis of Dalit identity requires focusing on Dalits as a cultural 'community', an economic 'class' and political 'formation'.