TY  - BOOK
AU  - Narayan, Badri 
TI  - Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India: culture, identity, and politics 
SN  - 9780761935377 
U1  - 305.568809542 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Dalits
KW  - Political activity
KW  - India
KW  - Uttar Pradesh
KW  - Women heroes
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Political aspects
N2  - This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. It demonstrates how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity and reconstructed for political mobilization
ER  -