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shhalaj-97893881620290303978938816202915978938816202900BB0101Dalit Women : Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India1A01Henna Tabassum01en002400312POL035010POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights01305.56880954 2303HT720.T33 2018041. Dalit women—Violence against—India. 2. Dalit women—India—Social conditions. 3. Caste-based discrimination—India. 4. Sex discrimination against women—India.0300Vulnerably 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.01IN04012018010101Shhalaj Publishing House20021499.00INRWORLD