00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094714.0 260919s2018 ii 00 0 eng d 9789388162029 HT720.T33 2018 305.56880954 23 Henna Tabassum Dalit Women : Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India / Henna Tabassum. New Delhi 2018. 240 pages Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s caste, class and gender hierarchies, Dalit women experience endemic gender-and-caste discrimination and violence as the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations. Their socio-economic vulnerability and lack of political voice, when combined with the dominant risk factors of being Dalit and female, increase their exposure to potentially violent situations while simultaneously reducing their ability to escape. Violence against dalit women presents clear evidence of widespread exploitation and discrimination against these women subordinated in terms of power relations to men in a patriarchal society, as also against their communities based on caste. Violence against Dalit women is to deny them opportunities, choices and freedoms at multiple levels, undermining not only dalit women’s dignity and self-respect, but also their right to development. Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s gender, caste and class hierarchies, Dalit women experience the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations in terms of endemic caste-class-gender discrimination and violence. This book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis. The book will be essential reading in the disciplines of politics, gender, social exclusion studies, sociology and social anthropology. Dalit women—Violence against—India. Dalit women—India—Social conditions. Caste-based discrimination—India. Sex discrimination against women—India. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights bisacsh