Communal Relations - Conflicting Narratives

[acharya]

<span style='color:blue'>With the rise of identity politics, 'postcolonial'
historians have shifted away from imagining class and
national unities in India's past and have started
pointing to diversities, but many of these studies
have a tendency to recuperate the older colonialist
imaginings of India. Representations of the systematic
mistreatment of women (patriarchy), the exploitation
of the young (child labour), domination by a
parasitic Brahman caste of Aryan descent, discrimination
by castes (untouchability), and the triumphalism
of an atavistic Hinduism reiterate the earlier
images of India as an inherently and uniquely divided
and oppressive place. </span>