Caste and Emancipatory Quest

Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood

By: Rama Devi

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eBook | 21 March 2025

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The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and achieve upward mobility, it presents structural constraints frustrating the march of Dalits to claim desired mobility. Through descriptive and nuanced accounts of various aspects of Dalit lives in urban, it foregrounds how caste permeates everyday city life.The book debunks the mirage of urban castelessness.