Jagdish, Son of Ahmad: Dalit Religion and Nominative Politics in Lucknow
Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, the sanitation labour castes of Lucknow radically altered their nominative practices, replacing Islamicate personal names with names in a Hindu style, and abandoning the caste title Lal Begi in favor of the surname Valmiki. Based on oral histories and ethnograph...
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2015-07-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3919 |
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