Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub "Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist: The history and politics of naming a community" Shailaja Paik

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub "Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist: The history and politics
of naming a community" Shailaja Paik

> H-ASIA
> November 4, 2011
>
> Member's publication "Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist: The history and politics
> of naming a community" Shailaja Paik
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> From: "Paik, Shailaja (paiksa)" <paiksa@UCMAIL.UC.EDU>
>
>
> I am very pleased to share my article entitled "Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist
> : The history and politics of naming in Maharashtra" that appears
> in the _Contributions to Indian Sociology_ June 2011 45: 217
> with the H-Asia community.
>
> Abstract: By examining practices of naming, especially the recent
> adoption of a "Buddhist" identity by middle-class Dalits in
> contemporary Maharashtra, this article analyses the multiple,
> shifting, and contested meanings of being Dalit. Examining the
> politics of this plurality shows the varied concerns at work in
> applying and contesting different names, especially the social and
> psychological challenges inherent in such acts of self-identification.
> By investigating the ambiguities and ambivalences of being Dalit and
> Buddhist, the article demonstrates that the strategies of naming
> struggle against the burdens of a stigmatised past as well as the
> challenge of exclusion and inclusion vis-?-vis different Dalit castes.
>
> Keywords: Dalit, Buddhist, subaltern history, socialisation, Maharashtra
>
> This article is deeply rooted in not only some personal and
> intellectual battles but also in some pedagogical difficulties I (and
> I am sure many of you) have encountered in teaching about caste and
> caste-names in the classroom. I hope you will find this article
> helpful to deal with the many names of Dalits.
>
>
> The online version of this article can be found at:
>
> DOI: 10.1177/006996671104500203
>
> Contributions to Indian Sociology June 2011 45: 217
> Shailaja Paik
>
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Shailaja Paik
>
> Assistant Professor
> Department of History
> 360 McMicken Hall
> P.O. Box 210373
> University of Cincinnati
> Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
> USA
>
> Tel: (513) 556-5679
> Fax: (513) 556-7901
> shailaja.paik@uc.edu
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