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“Restoring Dalit Agency in the Politics of Nationalism,” Book Review of Chiannaiah Jangam’s Dalits and the Making of Modern India
Moggallan Bharti says Dalits and the Making of Modern India by Carleton History professor Chinnaiah Jangam is “a treasure trove for the student of nationalism and India’s troubled history. The book with its rich archival work is a shot in the arm for several scholars who maintain that India does not have a single narrative strand of nationalism or rather who continue to challenge the very notion of ‘nationalism’ which by its very inception has been a hegemonic conditionality of sociopolitical events in a given time and space.”