Dalits in the New Millennium

Dalits in the New Millennium
Author: Sudha Pai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1009321749

The book premises that despite the long history of violence and discrimination against Dalits, their lives have transformed with the political and economic shifts in the country over the last three decades. It addresses these changes and interrogates the major aspects of Dalit experience associated with them.

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium
Author: Prabhat K. Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443852147

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001–2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature.

Dalits' Struggle for Social Justice in Andhra Pradesh (1956-2008)

Dalits' Struggle for Social Justice in Andhra Pradesh (1956-2008)
Author: Akepogu Jammanna
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443844969

The complete alienation of Dalits from resources like land, water, and agricultural implements has led to the collective demand for an equal share in productivity. This book discusses the range of socio-economic and cultural problems faced by the Dalit community. The movement advancing the rights of Dalits took place both before and after independence, however they varied in intensity, and concerned land ownership and fair wages, self-respect, social dignity, and the demand for equal rights. This movement appeared to have significantly changed the very mindset and attitude of upper caste people to restrain themselves and not to resort to any discrimination or humiliation of Dalits. However, this seems to have been only a temporary phenomenon, and the practice of suppression and humiliation continues today. This book explores the circumstances of Dalits in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and the current efforts attempting to achieve more social equality for the caste here.