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DESCRIPTION:South Asia Center presents: Ramnarayan Rawat - A Dalit Lexicon 
 of Liberty and Equality in 20th Century Northern IndiaRamnarayan Rawat\, A
 ssistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Delaware\, Newa
 rk\n\nDalit\nactors\nand\norganizations deployed a specific set of concept
 s to define\, describe\, and\npersonalize the politics of liberty and equa
 lity in early 20th century\nIndia.\nRawat\nargues that the terms used in D
 alit political and\nliterary activism were a\nproduct of very particular i
 ntellectual and religious traditions. The heterodox\n(non-Hindu) religious
  practice known as Nirgun\nBhakti (devotion to a formless divinity)\nconst
 ituted a crucial resource for Dalit engagements with the ideas and\npracti
 ces of liberal politics being worked out in late colonial India. This talk
 \ntraces the intimate connections between vernacular concepts\, modern dem
 ocratic\ninstitutions\, and Dalit intellectual challenges to caste inequal
 ity.\n\nSponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Gl
 obal Affairs&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:South Asia Center presents: Ramnarayan Rawat - A Dalit Lexicon of L
 iberty and Equality in 20th Century Northern India
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><b>South Asia Center presents: Ramnarayan R
 awat - A Dalit Lexicon of Liberty and Equality in 20th Century Northern In
 dia</b></p><p><b>Ramnarayan Rawat</b>\, <i>Assistant Professor\, Departmen
 t of History\, University of Delaware\, Newark</i></p><p>\n\n</p>Dalit\nac
 tors\nand\norganizations deployed a specific set of concepts to define\, d
 escribe\, and\npersonalize the politics of liberty and equality in early 2
 0th century\nIndia.\nRawat\nargues that the terms used in Dalit political 
 and\nliterary activism were a\nproduct of very particular intellectual and
  religious traditions. The heterodox\n(non-Hindu) religious practice known
  as Nirgun\nBhakti (devotion to a formless divinity)\nconstituted a crucia
 l resource for Dalit engagements with the ideas and\npractices of liberal 
 politics being worked out in late colonial India. This talk\ntraces the in
 timate connections between vernacular concepts\, modern democratic\ninstit
 utions\, and Dalit intellectual challenges to caste inequality.<p>\n\n<b><
 i>Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global A
 ffairs&nbsp\;</i></b></p>
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