Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion

by Joel Lee

Book Overview

The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108826660
• ISBN13: 9781108826662
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 8.9"