Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Glossary xiii
5. List of Figures xvii
6. Introduction. Performing Precarity: Sex-Gender-Caste/Ashlil-Manuski-Assli 1
7. PART I
8. 1 Policing Untouchables and Producing Tamasha in Maharashtra 47
9. 2 Constructing Caste, Desire, and Danger 71
10. PART II
11. 3 Ambedkar, Manuski, and Reconstructing Dalit Life-Worlds, 1920–1956 125
12. 4 Singing Resistance and Rehumanizing Poetics-Politics, Post-1930 176
13. PART III
14. 5 Claiming Authenticity and Becoming Marathi, Post-1960 229
15. 6 Forging New Futures and Measures of Humanity 295
16. Conclusion. Queering the “Vulgar”: Tamasha without Women 343
17. Notes 357
18. Bibliography 381
19. Index 387