Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 289 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511612213
Series Statement:
Contemporary South Asia 4
Content:
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as 'Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521553629
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521556712
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521553629
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511612213
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