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Index
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Acknowledgements
TOC
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Hindutva and Balmiki Consciousness
Caste and Balmiki Consciousness
Chapter 1 - Mehtars
Tyrannical Sweepers
Municipal Servants
Configurations of Power
Contract Labour
Jamadars
Distress of the Sweepers
The Mehtars and their Struggles
Chapter 2 - The Chuhras
The Occupations of the Chuhras
Commercialization and the Chuhras
Recording Rights
Recording Strife
"Non-Agriculturalists"
Strategies for Freedom
Conversion
Migration
Chapter 3 - Sweepers
Transporting Refuse
Recycling Refuse
Destroying Refuse
Chapter 4 - Balmikis
Bala Shah in the Colonial Imagination
Blame it on the Muslims
Ad-Dharm Visions and Dalit Divisions
The Emergence of Balmiki
Testing Hinduism
Balmiki Enshrined
On the Backs of the Muslims
Chapter 5 - Harijans
The Conundrums of Gandhianism
Revolting Labour
Chapter 6 - Citizens
Gandhi Amongst the Dalits
Freedom Disintoxicated
Contradictions of the Indian State
Commercial Reason
Labour Reason
Theocratic Reason
Efficiency Reason
Two Principles of Dalit Liberation
Territorial Independence
Cultural Parity
Dalit Struggles of Socialist Liberation
Epilogue
Glossary
Archival Sources
Index
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