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

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

Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany

(Contemporary South Asia, 4)

Cambridge University Press, 1998

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 272-283

Includes index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Glossary
  • 1. Who are the Untouchables?
  • 2. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity'
  • 3. Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956
  • 4. Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination
  • 5. Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs
  • 6. The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries
  • 7. Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956
  • 8. The question of reservation: lives and careers of some scheduled castes MPs and MLAs
  • 9. Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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