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TITLE
DECLARATION
CERTIFICATE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. COLONIAL TRANSFORMATIONS: SITUATING THE EXPERIENCE OF LOW CASTE SLAVES IN NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY KERALA
Introduction
Structures of change
Caste, colonialism and low caste communities
Christianity, low castes and the missionary interface
CONCLUSION
III. EQUALITY AS COLONIAL MODERNITY: MISSIONARY DISCOURSE AND SLAVE EXPERIENCE
Introduction
Questions of method
Who were the slaves?
Slavery: Experience and narrative
Agency and the power of the word
Sin and repentance: Disciplining the slaves
CONCLUSION
IV. LOW CASTE SEARCH FOR RESOURCES
Introduction
The demand for land and economic resources
The problem of cultural and symbolic capital: Desire for education
CONCLUSION
V. PRATHYAKSHA RAKSHA DAIVA SABHA AND THE IMAGINING OF EQUALITY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY KERALA
Introduction
Equality in the spiritual and religious realm
Spaces for negotiating social and political equality
Preparing to be equal: Reforming the bodily practices
Notions of work and culture in the context of negotiations for equality
Engaging the symbolic realm as a means for achieving equality
Identity and social boundaries in the context of the struggle for equality
CONCLUSION
VI. MEMORY AND EXPERIENCE: DISCOURSES OF SLAVERY
Introduction
Religious ideologies and social critique
Modes of narrativising the history of slave suffering
Ritual discourse and rememory of sufferings
Transformation of slavery as imagery
Slavery as a foundationalist category
Essentialising slavery as a category in the religion of the oppressed
CONCLUSION
VII. DISCOURSE OF HISTORY AND MAKING OF COMMUNITY
Introduction
The place of history
Social movement, religiosity and history: Recasting history
Reconstituting history
Historicising lacks
On the borderlines of history and fiction? Mythologizing slavery
Making of community through history
History as means to negotiate the present
CONCLUSION
VIII. CONCLUSION
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