The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India
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The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India
（Contemporary South Asia, 4）
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 272-283
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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