Dalit Representation in Ethnography
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https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2023.v08.n02.013Keywords:
ethnography, self, other, theory, Dalits, reflexiveAbstract
This paper tries to discuss within the context of ethnography the conceptual and political implications of modes of writing on Dalits, and also the different locations from which such writing is taking place? Who is writing on Dalits and to what end? Who is framing the Dalit question? How is the question being framed? What are the wider ethical, conceptual and political concerns that drive this mode of exploration around the subject? What difference does it make to the conceptualization of Dalits as an object of academic inquiry, whether such writing is abstract and distanced (historical/conceptual) or the result of an intimate encounter and engagement with difference (as in anthropological, ethnographic or fieldwork-based writing)?
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