Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana, and Nicole Thiara, eds., Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined
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6 novembre 2020
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Cécile Girardin, « Judith Misrahi-Barak, K. Satyanarayana, and Nicole Thiara, eds., Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.4317
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Seventy years ago, under the aegis of B.R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), the leader who inspired the Dalit movement, caste discrimination and untouchability were abolished from the Indian constitution. Even though the rigid, ritual shunning of Dalits has indeed faded, a July 2020 article from The Economist still reported that “with dismal regularity news stories tell of higher-caste people maiming, raping or murdering Dalits for such slights as daring to sport a moustache, ride a horse or, worst of a...