Ebook: Representing Dalit bodies in Colonial North India

This booklet examines how and why representations of Dalit bodies became potent symbols and critical grounds for identity formation and social positioning, for the colonisers, upper-caste Hindus, social reformers and the Dalit themselves in colonial north India, with a particular emphasis on the United Provinces. By studying the multiple discourses of different sections of society in colonial UP, it tries to provide a perspective on the disjunctive forms of representation that signified Dalit bodies, both female and male.