1. Introduction: Dalit Discourse in the New Millennium Sudha Pai, Shyam Babu and Rahul Verma; Part I. Shifting Patterns of Electoral Politics: 2. Electoral Politics: Voting Patterns among Dalits Rahul Verma and Pranav Gupta; 3. On the peculiar absence of Dalit politics: Punjab and West Bengal Dwaipayan Sen; 4. Decline of the BSP: Dalit Politics under Right-Wing Hegemony Sudha Pai; 5. A Democratic Dilemma: Dalit parties, election finance, and coalition politics Michael A. Collins; 6. Why Dalits voted for the BJP in recent elections? Abhinav Prakash; Part II. Popular Culture, Discourse andd Protest: 7. Role of songs in the emergence of Bahujan identity Kalyani and Satnam Singh; 8. Anti-caste Music and Cinema Prashant Ingole; 9. Portrayal of Dalits in the Media: A Study of Select Newspapers from Uttar Pradesh Swadesh Singh; 10. Dalit Protest Politics Amit Aahuja and Rajkamal Singh; Part III. Transformations in Ideology and Identity: 11. Annihilation, Identity, Representation: Kanshi Ram and the Conundrums of Dalit Political Agency Surinder S. Jodhka; 12. Reading Caste and Class together: A Dalit-Bahujan-Left Alliance? Dwaipayan Bhattacharya; 13. Towards Radical Democracy: the Dalit-Bahujan Claim for Political Power Harish Wankhede; 14. Liberation Panthers and the Dalit Challenge to Hindutva in Tamil Nadu Meena Kandasamy and Hugo Gorringe; 15. Dalit-Bahujan Politics: Crisis and Future Badri Narayan; Part IV. Aspirations and Anxieties: 16. Role of Technology in Social and Political Life of Young Dalits Snigdha Poonam and Samarth Bansal; 17. Dalit Middle Class: Aspirations, Networks and Social Capital Gurram Srinivas; 18. Persisting Gap: A Case for Restitution and Reparations Amit Thorat; 19. Dalit Capitalism: Adversity, Opportunity and Agency? D. Shyam Babu; Part V. Discrimination and Representation: 20. The Effect of Dalit Representatives on the Community Francesca Jensenius and Simon Chauchard; 21. Dalit Legislators as Policy Makers Kaushiki Sanyal; 22. Why some MBCs want SC status? Arvind Kumar; 23. Measuring caste-based Discrimination Victoire Girard, Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche and Peter Mayer; 24. Suicide rates among Dalits Vikas Arya, Andrew Page, Gregory Armstrong and Peter Mayer; 25. Epilogue.
