India's Roaring Revolution Dalit Assertion and New Horizons, , Vivek Kumar, Gagandeep Publications, 8188865079

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India's Roaring Revolution Dalit Assertion and New Horizons

Vivek Kumar (Author)

Synopsis This book is a comprehensive document of dalit movements, their leadership, assertion, aspiration and new horizons they have achieved during centuries of their struggle. It highlights the quantitative and qualitative changes in the nature and scope of their demands. The book probes shifted their assertion from individual to communitarian rights and then now to global level. The author has recorded the structural changes brought by Dalit movement in Uttar Pradesh in particular an thereby how it has strengthened the Indian democracy and process of nation building. In sum the book captures the phenomenon, how Dalit assertion is working for the construction of a positive image of the erstwhile stigmatized identity of the, Dalits.

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About the author

Vivek Kumar

Dr. Vivek Kumar, Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Social Systems/School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, was born in a Dalit family in Lucknow. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from the same university where he is teaching. He was a lecturer in the Unit for Sociology of Education, TataInstitute of Social Science, Mumbai for a brief period. He also worked for The Pioneer an English daily and Hindi weekly, Pioneer Saptahik, published from Lucknow and New Delhi simultaneously. Dr. Vivek has contributed number of research papers in the books and Journals. He is author of Dalit Assertion and Bahujan Samaj Party. He attended the International Confernece against Racism held at Durban in South Africa in the year 2001. His major area of specialisation is Social Stratification and Social Movements.

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