Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization - Caste, Tribe, and Hindu Nationalism in Transnational Perspective

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Rethinking difference in India through racialization 2. Moving untouched: B. R. Ambedkar and the racialization of untouchability 3. Caste, racialization, and the making of environmental unfreedoms in urban India 4. Broomscapes: racial capitalism, waste, and caste in Indian Railway Stations 5. Dirty food: racism and casteism in India 6. Theorizing racialization through India’s "Mongolian Fringe" 7. Racialization and ethnicization: Hindutva hegemony and caste 8. The transnational routes of white and Hindu nationalisms 9. Global Castes

About the author

Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza is Lecturer in the History Department, University of Manchester.
Mabel Denzin Gergan is Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University.
Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.
Pavithra Vasudevan is Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

Summary

Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others.

Product details

• Authors: Jesus F. (University of Manchester Chairez-Garza
• Assisted by: Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza (Editor), Mabel Denzin Gergan (Editor), Malini Ranganathan (Editor), Pavithra Vasudevan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032334448
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233444-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, History, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Religion: general, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies