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To investigate how urban Dalit communities negotiate caste structures, social mobility, and emancipatory practices within an urban neighborhood.

January 26, 2026Economic and political weekly/Economic & political weekly

Urban Dalit Mobilities; Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood by Rama Devi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025; pp 291, €39.99.

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To investigate how urban Dalit communities negotiate caste structures, social mobility, and emancipatory practices within an urban neighborhood.
Conducted an ethnographic field investigation within an urban neighborhood setting.
Analyzed qualitative lived experiences, spatial dynamics, and socio-political mobilization documented in a 291-page monograph.
Demonstrates that urban environments offer crucial avenues for Dalits to contest traditional caste oppression and seek social emancipation.
Identifies that while spatial mobility enables educational and economic gains, subtle forms of caste exclusion and neighborhood stratification persist.

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Ethnographic study reveals pathways of social mobility and resistance in urban Dalit communities, highlighting ongoing negotiations of caste hierarchy in modern cities.

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Caste and Emancipatory Quest Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood, by Rama Devi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025; pp 291, 39.99 EUR

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Implication

Ethnographic study reveals pathways of social mobility and resistance in urban Dalit communities, highlighting ongoing negotiations of caste hierarchy in modern cities.

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Caste and Emancipatory Quest Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood, by Rama Devi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025; pp 291, 39.99 EUR

Urban Dalit Mobilities; Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood by Rama Devi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025; pp 291, €39.99.

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Urban Dalit Mobilities; Caste and Emancipatory Quest: Ethnography of Dalits in an Urban Neighborhood by Rama Devi, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025; pp 291, €39.99.

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