Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: We ask you to rethink: Different Dalit women and their subaltern politics; Part I Imagining a new Dalit women's politics; 1 Foreword: Dalits, Dalit women and the Indian State; 2 For another difference: Agency, representation and Dalit women in contemporary India; Part II Dalit women's conceptualizations of caste difference and their means of collectivization; 3 Gendered negotiations of caste identity: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamil Nadu.

4 Liberation panthers and pantheresses? Gender and Dalit party politics in South India5 Microcredit self-help groups and Dalit women: Overcoming or essentializing caste difference?; Part III A broken empowerment? Are women still trapped by caste and patriarchy?; 6 Dalit women, rape and the revitalisation of patriarchy?; 7 Different Dalit women speak differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism from everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh; 8 Subsidising capitalism and male labour: The scandal of unfree Dalit female labour relations.

Part IV Religion as Dalit political practice9 Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste-class and gender in slum Pentecostal discourse; 10 Improper politics: The praxis of subalterns in Chennai; Afterword: The burden of caste: Scholarship, democratic movements and activism.