the book illustrates how Dalit women were formed within the limits of historically specific practices, what Foucault calls ‘modes of subjectivation’: the very processes that secure a subject’s subordination are also the means by which she becomes a self-conscious identity and agent” (p.

Paik describes her method as follows: “Rather than ‘going where women are,’ or ‘recovering’ women through oral histories. The work is enriched by a rare focus on working-class and middle-class women whose experience of caste and gender discrimination is modulated by two things, the political economy of class and the spatialization of caste. A signal contribution to the field of critical Ambedkar studies and South Asian histories of gender, Paik’s book focuses on Dalit women’s continued struggles to claim educated selfhood while navigating complex inequities of caste, patriarchy, and inherited privilege. Shailaja Paik has written an elegant and nuanced book about women’s education and its centrality to Maharashtra’s Ambedkar movement. Reviewed by Anupama Rao (Columbia University Barnard College) Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series. Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. Sainath - The Hindu code bill for the liberation of women / Pratima Pardeshi.Shailaja Paik. John - Caste and women / Leela Dube - Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Vasanth Kannabiran & Kalpana Kannabiran - The impossible subject : caste and the gendered body / Susie Tharu - Understanding Sirasgaon : notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of 'atrocity' / Anupama Rao - The downtrodden among the downtrodden : an interview with a Dalit agricultural labourer / Gail Omvedt - Of land and Dalit women / Kancha Ilaiah - Unmusical chairs / P. Geetha - Dr Ambedkar and the empowerment of women / Eleanor Zelliot - Dalit women in western ethnography / Mary E.

Anandhi - Reconceptualising gender : Phule, Brahmanism and Brahmanical patriarchy / Uma Chakravarti - Periyar, women and an ethic of citizenship / V. Siddiqi - The women's question in the Dravidian movement c. Pandian - The subaltern speaks / Majid H. Urmila Pawar - Dalit movement and women's movements / Gabriele Dietrich - Dalit women talk differently / Gopal Guru - Why I am not a Hindu / Kancha Ilaiah - A Dalit feminist standpoint / Sharmila Rege - Untouchability and Dalit women's oppression / Bela Malik - Dalit women's cry for liberation : 'my rights are rising like the sun, will you deny this sunrise?' / Pranjali Bandhu - Pan on fire : eight Dalit women tell their stories / Sumitra Bhave - On a Dalit woman's testimonio / M.S.S. We made history, too : women in the early untouchable liberation movement / Meenakshi Moon and.

Gender and Caste by Anupama Rao