TY - BOOK AU - Mani,Braj Ranjan TI - Debrahmanising history: dominance and resistance in Indian society SN - 8173046409 U1 - 954 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manohar Publishers & Distributors KW - Dalits KW - History KW - Historiography KW - India KW - Civilization N1 - Historical roots of Brahmanic dominance and Shramanic resistance -- Buddhist India : against caste and Brahmanism -- Medieval Mukti movements of the subaltern saint-poets -- Colonialism, and birth of Vedic-Brahmanic Nationalism -- Phule's struggle against Brahmanical Colonialism -- Guru, Iyothee, Periyar, Acchutanand : different strategies, one goal -- Nationalist power politics, excluded masses and the Gandhi-Ambedkar debate -- Epilogue : institutionalised discrimination from the past to the 'Democratic' present ER -