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041 _aeng
082 _a704.086940954
_bDAL
100 _aTartakov, Gary Micha
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245 _aDalit art and visual imagery /
_cedited by Gary Michael Tartakov ; with a foreword by Sukhadeo Thorat
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bOxford Univ. Press,
_c2012.
300 _axxiv, 296 pages, [8] p. of plates : ill. (some color)
500 _aIndian Institute of Dalit Studies.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aContents : Introduction: Invisibles? / Gary Michael Tartakov-- Art and Identity: The Rise of a New Buddhist Imagery / Gary Michael Tartakov-- The Hindu Temple as a Representation and Instrument of Caste in Traditional India / Gary Michael Tartakov-- New Paths to Sanchi / Gary Michael Tartakov-- The Politics of Popular Art: Maharashtra / Gary Michael Tartakov-- Learning the Use of Symbolic Means: Dalits, Ambedkar Statues, and the State in Uttar Pradesh / Nicolas Jaoul-- The Navayana Creation of the Buddha Image / Gary Michael Tartakov-- Navayana Buddhists on the Public Stage /Gary Michael Tartakov-- We Make These Floats So That They Will See What We See /Feel: Ambedkar Jayanti, Hierarchy, and the Darsan Effect / Owen M. Lynch-- Mithila Painting: The Dalit Intervention / David L. Szanton-- Dalit Painting Seen from the Outside / Gary Michael Tartakov-- A Dalit Iconography of an Expressionist Imagination / Saurabh Dube-- Dalits, Art, and the Imagery of Everyday Life / Gary Michael Tartakov-- Sister Mysore Seeks the Canon / Gary Michael Tartakov--
520 _aThis volume creates a seamless narrative of Dalit identity through use of visuals and accompanying explanatory texts. Spanning the historical and contemporary period, the volume investigates the representation of Dalit identities in Buddhist imagery, Hindu temples and traditional caste system,popular art and painting, and state-sponsored architecture and sculpture. Raising the face of contemporary untouchability into view, it explores the uses of visual imagery by, for and against Dalits in Indian society.Where are the images of Dalit oppression in the Hindu temple or Dalit triumph in the Navayana Buddhist viharas? How have Dalits used images of B.R. Ambedkar to bring their reality before the nation? How are Dalits attempting to use visual imagery to describe the world around them, work out theirown identities and to shape their destinies? The collection offers a variety of approaches to the study of visual imagery and issues of Dalit experience.This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of Dalit studies, sociology, modern Indian history, and religion (particularly Buddhism) and others concerned with caste politics.
650 _aArt and society
_zIndia
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650 _aDalits
_zIndia
_926337
650 _aBuddhist art and symbolism
_zIndia
_926338
650 _aHindu architecture
_zIndia
_926364
710 _aIndian Institute of Dalit Studies
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