Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation
Badri Narayan, 2009, Sage, pages 195

—the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, —a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Continue reading Fanatic Dalits, Empowered Dalits? The Not-So-Fascinating World of Dalit-Hindutva Engagement →