دانلود کتاب The Decline of the Caste Question, Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal

This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal
argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in the region
was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process
through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal, the leader of the
Dalit movement in eastern India and a figure of prominence in the
history of India and Pakistan, over the transition of Partition and
Independence. Utilizing Mandal’s private papers, this study reveals
both the strength and achievements of his movement for Dalit recogni-
tion, as well as the major challenges and constraints he encountered.
Departing from analyses that have stressed the role of integration,
Dwaipayan Sen demonstrates how a wide range of coercions shaped
the eventual defeat of Dalit politics in Bengal. The region’s acclaimed
“castelessness” was born of the historical refusal of Mandal’s struggle to
pose the caste question.