Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:12:43 meaning ofnationhoodand nationalism.Theirwritingsandactivismwere persuasive dialoguewithcaste Hindueldersandintellectualsthatalteredthe also acknowledgesthecrucial roleDalitintellectualsplayedthroughtheir than asabreakbetweenprecolonial andanti-colonialstruggles.Thischapter this chapteristhattheauthor usesDalitconsciousnessasacontinuumrather satyagraha. Themost significant contribution of meetings, and templeentry Dalits havetriedtomobilizethemselvesbyorganizingpolitical rallies,public and richarchivaldatafromTelugu newspaperreports,Jangamportrayshow ofmodernity.colonial Brahminicaltrajectory Usinghistorical methodology withtheideologicalformsusedbyDalitstocounter the cultural memory Caste .” Thefirstchapterseekstoconnecttheprecolonialanti-caste Consciousness,” “EducationandDalitEnlightenment,” of and“Quandary the SelfandPolitical Identity;andDalitImagination: AnEgalitarianEthic. arranged intothreeparts:DalitsandtheColonialConjecture; Makingof caste HindusandprovidesaradicalalternativeaccountofDalitNationalism. constructofthenotionnationby Hence, thebookchallengesaunitary so-called radicalalternativehistoriographyrepresentedbysubalternstudies. notion ofnationalismdoesnotonlyexistinnationalisttracts,butalsothe location ofnationalismasthesoleprerogativecasteHindus.Theaforesaid Brahamnical worldview regardingconceptualizationandrealization ofthe to authorChinnaiahJangam,mainstreamwritershaveprivilegedtheHindu , whichremainstheexclusivedomainofprivilegedelite.According The bookunderreviewexaminestheestablishednarrativeofnationalismin University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Vienna, University ofVienna, in NorthKoreaoverthelastdecade. wouldbemostwelcometoreflectthechanges An updateofthesesurveys conducted in South Korea. Chinese firms in Dandong and defector surveys among development, willbenefitfromdetailedinsightsbasedonsurveys North Koreaneconomy, ofits itsresourceendowment,andthechronology Scholars andstudentswhoarealreadyfamiliarwiththestructureof from theperspectiveoffirms,households,andprocesstransformation. in graduatecourses on North Korea. It takes a closer look atthe country and thoughtprovoking. welcome conventional wisdom,suchasBoKdataonGDPortradedata,isvery 247 pp.(Table, illustrations.) US$53.00,cloth.ISBN978-0-19-947777-7. Jangam. OF MODERN INDIA AND THE MAKING DALITS Part Iisfurtherdividedintothreechapters:“Mapping Dalit Dalits andtheMakingofModernIndiaconsistssixchaptersthematically Unveiling the North Korean reading EconomyUnveiling the North is suitableassupplementary Oxford, UK;NewDelhi,India:Oxford UniversityPress, 2017.xiii, Book Reviews Rudiger Frank . By Chinnaiah 375 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:12:43 justice, andhumandignity. Itis inthiscontexttheauthorhasused,very the caseforfounding nation ontheprinciplesofequality, economic the meaning of nationhood by critically engaging with caste Hindus to make the Dalitimaginationofnationhood andnationalismsignificantlyaltered representative democracy. IncontrasttocasteHindus, theauthorassertsthat unequal societywithinheritedcasteprivilegesintact alongsidealiberal ideals, an Caste Hindu elites imagined a nation founded on contradictory Brahmanical consciousnesspresentedbyHinduelites asnationaldomain. and Jawaharlal Nehrutoshow thatthereisanunderlying unityofHindu the writingsandactionsofBankimChandraChattopadhyay, M.K.Gandhi, hasevolvedhisnotion ofnationhoodbydrawingon clearthatChaterjee very ofnationhood.However, inframingtheepistemology Chaterjee Jangamis meaningfully engages with Benedict Anderson, Ernest Renan, and Partha book, “WhoseNation?:DalitsandtheImaginationof Nation,” theauthor excluded otheruntouchablecastes. of Telugu Nationalism, albeitwithitsownlimitations.Verma’s nationalism 1917. Significanttonoteisthat Verma’s mobilizationledtotheemergence became theelectedpresidentoffirstAdi-AndhraMahajanaSabhain ReddyVerma.as Bhagya ItwashewholedtheAdiHinduMovementand popularly known leader whomadeallthedifferencewasMaadariBhagyayya, date ofpoliticalmobilizationDalitsfixedbytheauthoris1906,and colonial MadrasPresidency. Hereitisbefittingtomentionthattheexact oftheNizamHyderabadand speaking areaswithintheterritory ofDalitpoliticsinsouthernIndiaassociatedwiththeTelugu-the history Dalits and their politics. Specifically, the author has attempted to chart power, which gavethemnewgroundsforassertion.Chapter5dealswith whohadonceenjoyedpolitical as theoriginalinhabitantsofcountry of theirownmaking.Away fromself-reform,Dalitsinvokedtheirhistory In thesameveinDalitsrejectedviewthattheirsufferingwasprimarily with thestigmathathasbeenattachedtothemsincetimeimmemorial. processes through which Dalits negotiate an independent self andidentity untouchables humanely, theynevertreatedthemasequals. structure of the caste system to benefit themarginalized; whilethey treated did notchallengethecastesystem.Theyneverwantedtoreorganize untouchability. Further, andreformists thechapteranalyzeshowconservatives maps out ideasheldby caste Hindus who were debating issues of caste and rule andshapedtheactivismassertionofDalits.Thethirdchapter and theestablishmentofliberalvaluesthatemergedoutcolonial recorded theroleofmissionaries,moderneducation,governmentpolicies, to rethinktheproductionofknowledge.Insecondchapterauthorhas responsible foranepistemicrupturethatforcedscholarsacrossthediscipline 376 In PartIII,attheoutsetofconcludingchapter(chapter 6)ofthe Part IIofthebookhastwochapters,first(chapter4)dealswith Pacific Affairs: Volume92,No.2–June2019 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.151 on: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:12:43 of anidealizedpre-industrial society, ancientmysticalwisdom,andpristine These movementsparticularly projected Western counterculturalfantasies anti-establishmentmovementslike Spiritualism andTheosophy.century chapter, tothelatenineteenth- brilliantlytracesthebeginnings ofthatstory intoa“fabledworld travel”destination.Liechty, intheintroductory the “intrinsic allure of Kathmandu” (and Nepali ) canonized unpacks how“global geopoliticsandWestern ratherthan geo-imaginary” In thisdeeplyresearchedandbeautifullywritten book, Mark Liechty Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, NewDelhi,India discourse andthepublicsphere. engagement thiswork viaDalit hassuccessfully expandedIndianhistory nationalism. Inthesamevein,onbasisofempiricaldataandcritical expressed throughtheirculturalcreationsasbeingapartofanti-cultural recording theprecolonialanti-casteegalitarianconsciousnessofDalits democracy. ButJangam’s work challengesthisdominantnarrativeby the colonial context and ends with their participation in the parliamentary Indiamostwriting onDalitsbeginswith with Dalitsbecauseincontemporary population, isthefutureofIndiannation. community foundedondignity, equality, andjusticeledbythesubjugated That iswhytheauthorendsonanoptimisticnote:thatthisimagined this imaginationwithvaluessuchasjustice,equality, liberty, andfraternity. enlightened andinclusive.Whileframingtheconstitutionhesubstantiated narrated Ambedkar’s imaginednationalism(Prabuddha Bharat) whichwas and Christians. Itis against thisnature ofnationalism thatJangam has dignity, and social justice to marginalized castes, tribes, women, Muslims, upper casteBrahmanicalnationalism,whichhasfailedtodeliverequality, of Indiannationalismstemsfromanti-colonialtoso-called conclusion of thetext. Here, the author concludes that the onward march nature of Indian nationalism— that can betreated as the the exclusionary by the way, should be treated as part of the basic argument concerning and nationalism. present adistinctiveDalitdiscoursethatalteredthemeaningofnationhood creatively, thewritingsandactivitiesofDalitsinTelugu publicsphereto 0-226-42894-9. xiv, 387pp.(Maps,B&Wphotos.,illustrations.) US$35.00,paper. ISBN978- By Mark Liechty. Chicago; London:TheUniversityof Chicago Press, 2017. FAR OUT: Countercultural SeekersandtheTourist EncounterinNepal. To conclude,thebookisasignificantadditiontoliterature associated In additiontothesixchaptersofthisbook,thereisanepilogue—which Book Reviews Vivek Kumar 377