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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.