Oppressed, Backward, or Subaltern? Revisiting Hardgrave’s The Nadars of Tamilnad

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Title: Oppressed, Backward, or Subaltern? Revisiting Hardgrave’s The Nadars of Tamilnad

Published on: March 22, 2024

Published in: Economic and Political Weekly

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Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan

Robert L Hardgrave’s book titled The Nadars of Tamilnad (1969), a study of a caste in South India and the politics of self-assertion in the colonial and postcolonial period, is revisited. This book is read in light of discussions on subaltern studies and caste.