Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Gendering Dalits 1
7. 1. Dirty “Other” Vamp: (Mis)Representing Dalit Women 28
8. 2. Paradoxes of Victimhood: Iconographies of Suffering, Sympathy, and Subservience 52
9. 3. Dalit Viranganas: (En)Gendering the Dalit Reinvention of 1857 86
10. 4. Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities 111
11. 5. Intimate and Embodied Desires: Religious Conversions and Dalit Women 166
12. 6. Goddesses and Women’s Songs: Negotiating Dalit Popular Religion and Culture 208
13. 7. Caste, Indentured Women, and the Hindi Public Sphere 232
14. Conclusion 267
15. Glossary 271
16. Bibliography 276
17. Index 321
18. Global South Asia Series 337