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The Vulgarity of Caste
Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India
Shailaja Paik

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Contents
Introduction: Performing Precarity: Sex-Gender-Caste/Ashlil-Manuski-Assli
1Policing Dalits and Producing Tamasha in Maharashtra
2Constructing Caste, Desire, and Danger
3Ambedkar, Manuski, and Reconstructing Dalit Life-Worlds, 1920-1956
4Singing Resistance and Rehumanizing Poetics-Politics, Post-1930
5Claiming Authenticity and Becoming Marathi, Post-1960
6Forging New Futures and Measures of Humanity
Conclusion.: Queering the "Vulgar": Tamasha without Women