The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India by Shailaja Paik

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The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India

Shailaja Paik

422 pages paperback 2022

4 editions

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This book offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal...

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