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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Looking up at caste : discrimination in everyday life in India / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- Theorizing marginality
- The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher
- Atrocities and segregation in an urban social structure / Nandu Ram
- Continuity and change in "ex-untouchable" community of south India / Joan P. Mencher
- A reading of "untouchable : the autobiography of an Indian outcaste" / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- On being an untouchable in India : a materialist perspective / Joan P. Mencher
- Conversion of upper castes into lower castes : a process of asprashyeekaran / Shyamlal
- Dalits to benefit from globalisation lessons from the past for the present / A Ramaiah
- Doing fieldwork among the dalits
- Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up / Joan P. Mencher
- Becoming a dhobi / Subhadra Mitra Channa
- Religion and gender
- Dancing the goddess : possession and caste / Karin Kapadia
- The Bible and dalits / James Massey
- Rediscovering god Iyothee Thassar and emancipatory Buddhism / G. Aloysius
- Religion, social space and identity / P. Sanal Mohan
- Dalit women
- Dalit women in struggle : transforming pain into power / Ruth Manorama
- Dalit women : a critical appraisal
- Dalit women's lives
- Caste and gender : understanding dynamics of power and violence / Kalpana Kannabiran, Vasanth Kannabiran
- Fighting the system : dalit responses to opression
- Climax! : the encounter of Dalits and Hindus / Vasant Moon
- Theyyam myth : an embodiment of protest / J.J. Pallath
- Documenting dissent / Badri Narayan
- The satnamis of chhattisgarh / Saurabh Dube
- Dissenting the hegemony by scheduled castes in south India / G.K. Karanth
- Reservations and new caste alliances in India / Walter Fernandes
- Conclusions / Joan P. Mencher.