Life as a Dalit : views from the bottom on caste in India /

Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned around the more acclaimed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Channa, Subhadra, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2013.
Temas:
Dalits > India.
Caste-based discrimination > India.
Caste > India.
Discrimination fondée sur la caste > Inde.
Castes > Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Caste
Caste-based discrimination
Dalits
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned around the more acclaimed and accepted theories of caste society privileging the Brahmanical and textual interpretations of caste. It shows that those at the bottom have their own interpretations and follow a rationality that is tutored by their own life conditions and not what is fed to them from the top. These views from th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9788132117773
8132117778

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