Counter-Discourses of Lower-Caste Intellectuals in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Mainstream Hindu Discourses and the Phule-Ambedkar Ideology

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  • Ji Eun Lee Sejong University Associate Professor, Dept. of History #918 Jiphyeon-Gwan, 209 Neungdong-ro, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05006, Korea

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61707/ps3fq057

Keywords:

Phule, Ambedkar, Lower-Caste Movement, Dalit Movement, Hindu Discourse

Abstract

This study examines the nature of discourse formation in the Dalit movement by analysing two different historical stages: 1) the nineteenth-century upper-caste discourse on Aryan race theory and the counter-discourse advocated by Phule; and 2) the early twentieth-century mainstream nationalist discourse and the counter-discourse proposed by B. R. Ambedkar. However, the ideologies of Phule and Ambedkar, which have often been combined and called the ‘Phule-Ambedkar ideology’, contain heterogeneous and conflicting elements, especially concerning lower-caste identity and perceptions of the upper castes. Counter-discourses have been produced through interaction with and responses to the contemporary mainstream discourse in different times and contexts

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2024-03-07

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Counter-Discourses of Lower-Caste Intellectuals in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Mainstream Hindu Discourses and the Phule-Ambedkar Ideology. (2024). International Journal of Religion, 5(3), 175-185. https://doi.org/10.61707/ps3fq057

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