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100			_aJanarthanan, Dhivya _9122657
245		0	_aViews From an Anti-Caste Movement: Caste, Labour, and Religion in Sangharsh
260			_bSocial Change
260			_c2024
300			_a208-228
520			_aWhile the sociology and anthropology of India are replete with the thematic of caste and caste-based oppression and inequalities, the world of ethnographic film-making is largely silent on these issues. This article analyses an exception to this situation-Sangharsh: Times of Strife [Dir. Nicolas Jaoul, 2018], filmed in the late 1990s-early 2000s and revolving around activists of the Bhartiya Dalit Panthers, an anti-caste formation in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. I examine the film's enactment of caste relations through its focus on this anti-caste movement and its activists. To this end, I attend to questions of cinematic form and structure, link the film's representational strategies to film-making lineages, and analyse sequences in which some of the most contentious, topical issues are developed-namely, the connections between caste and labour as well as between caste, religion, and communalism. The article therein analyses the implications of these cinematic engagements to our understanding of caste relations.
650			_a Anti-Caste Movement
650			_a Caste _91356
650			_a Labour
650			_aReligion _92075
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/00490857241252695
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