Abstract
Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women’s Agency-narratives on Caste and Gender Violence
Highlights
The book brings together an array of stories about how caste kills sociality, the spirit to live and commune, humanity in humans, and imagination in the young
Lest the reader suspect the book of ‘giving voice’ or letting the subaltern speak in ways that make the interpreter innocent, the book is not in that mold either
Despite the book’s subtitle, the reader comes away with a view that it would be wrong to think about ‘caste violence’ as if it is an effect of an institution
Summary
The book brings together an array of stories about how caste kills sociality, the spirit to live and commune, humanity in humans, and imagination in the young. The book makes two explicit arguments—that caste needs to be viewed as a system of violence-punishment, and that Dalit women are agentive subjects operating on and through the ‘difference’ that constitutes them as untouchable subjects.
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