Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Debjani Ganguly is Director, Research Development, at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. She has published in the areas of postcolonial theory, caste and dalit studies, new literatures in English, and Indian literary criticism.

• Prologue 1. Modernity, Postcolonaiality and the New Humanities: Toward a non-holistic reading of caste Part 1: Caste and Theoretical Horizons 2. The Dark Rock of Indian Tradition: Caste and orientalism 3. The Anomalous Insider: Caste and nationalism 4. An Intractable Dualism: Caste and Marxism 5. On the Other Side of Revenge: Caste and post-orientalism Part 2: Caste, Life-World, Narrative and the Aesthetic 6. Dalit Mythographies: Ambedkar as modernity's Interlocutor 7. Buddha, Bhakti and Superstition: A post-secular reading of dalit conversion 8. Of Urban Dystopias and New Gods: Readings from Marathi dalit literature 9. Chandra, Velutha, Ammu, Death: The aporia of the aesthetic Epilogue

'[A]n important attempt at theorizing caste in the context of the recent debated on colonial modernity.' - Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, December 2007