Caste, Incivility and the Prospects of Civil Repair

Title: Caste, Incivility and the Prospects of Civil Repair

Published on: May 21, 2025

Published in: 'The Indian Civil Sphere' edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Suryakant Waghmore

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Dr. Karthikeyan Damodaran

Co-author: Hugo Gorringe

The book chapter basically argues that, despite backlashes at every stage in their claims to equality and social justice, Dalits and Dalit movements are continuously engaged in civil repair efforts. The Dalits have currently extended their struggles taking it forward to critiquing dominant cultural texts and creating new cultural understandings as efforts to remake the social and as an ongoing process of civil repair towards the creation of a more open and democratic society.

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