Suffering And Resistance : Essays on anti-caste feminist praxis – Kalpana Kannabiran (Hardcover)

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This volume is an in-depth feminist engagement with the many ways in which caste is resisted, reimagined, and undone. Kalpana Kannabiran brings together four decades of anti-caste feminist scholarship and activism, moving across regions, languages, and intellectual traditions while following the work of a remarkable constellation of philosophers and public thinkers who have challenged the everyday workings of Brahmanical and dominant-caste power in Indian society.

Organised into three sections, the essays examine how social scientists—such as C. Parvathamma,hailed as India’s first Dalit woman sociologist and a pioneer in the study of caste—engaged with the Constitution’s anti-caste tenets; how transqueer and feminist critiques unsettle caste-gender norms and Brahmanical monogamy; and how Dalit, anti-caste, anti-majoritarian feminist formations craft new visions of citizenship and collective life from the perspective of women.

Whether unpacking caste violence, addressing the rhetoric around women’s place in caste conflict, probing the caste-gender complex, or tracing the ‘sculpting’ of anti-caste praxis, this book offers a provocative, timely, and clear-sighted feminist reckoning with caste.