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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-2711-9
Publication date:
2023
Book Chapter
The Caste of Liberal Intervention
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Published:June 2023
In chapter five, Shankar theorizes Sahaayaka's intervention strategies within the liberal politics of savarna ideologies of “castelessness.” Shankar shows the way that Sahaayaka shies away from explicit reckonings with their caste positions and the caste structurings of the organization only to have these caste-based stratifications emerge quite explicitly in the everyday workings of the organization.
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