The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India /

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 Ind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendelsohn, Oliver
Otros Autores: Vicziany, Marika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ; 4.
Temas:
Since 1947
Dalits > India > Politics and government.
Dalits > India > Economic conditions.
Dalits > India > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Dalits > Economic conditions
Dalits > Politics and government
Dalits > Social conditions
Politics and government
Dalit
Armut
Onaanraakbaren.
Onderdrukking.
Armoede.
Intouchables > Inde > 1945- ...
Paria.
India > Politics and government > 1947-
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947-
India
Indien
Inde > Conditions sociales > 1947- ...
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947- ...
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who are the Untouchables?
  • The question of the 'Harijan atrocity'
  • Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956
  • Public policy I : adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination
  • Public policy II : the anti-poverty programs
  • The new Untouchables proletariat : a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries
  • Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956
  • The question of reservation : the lives and careers of some scheduled caste MPs and MLAs
  • Subordiantion, poverty and the state in modern India.

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