Listening to the Loom brings to light a previously unknown body of ideas and essays from renowned Indian Dalit scholar D. R. Nagaraj, representing his most important writings on literature, politics, and violence. Comprised of thirteen pieces - the majority dating from between 1993 and 1998 - the bo[...]
In this volume of sixteen essays, D.R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics - the Dalit being a self-designation for many groups in the lower castes of India. Nag[...]