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100	0		_aNarayan, Badri
245	1	0	_aWomen heroes and Dalit assertion in north India : _bculture, identity, and politics / _cBadri Narayan.
250			_aVol.5
260			_aNew Delhi ; _aThousand Oaks, Calif. : _bSAGE Publications, _c2006.
300			_a186 p. :
440			_aCultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge
520			_aThis volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization.
650		0	_aDalits _xPolitical activity _zIndia _zUttar Pradesh.
650		0	_aWomen heroes _xMythology _xPolitical aspects _zIndia _zUttar Pradesh.
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