Subordinate and marginal groups in early India
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Subordinate and marginal groups in early India
（Oxford in India readings, Themes in Indian history）
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Summary: On social marginality in India until 1500; contributed articles
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The despised castes : North-East India in Buddha's time / Richard Fick
- Slavery in ancient India : as depicted in Pāli and Sanskrit texts / Dev Raj Chanana
- Evolution of untouchability in Tamil Nadu up to AD 1600 / K.R. Hanumanthan
- Caṇḍāla and the origin of untouchability / Vivekananda Jha
- Women, men, and beasts : the Jatakas as popular tradition / Uma Chakravarti
- Chokhamela and Eknath : two bhakti modes of legitimacy for modern change / Eleanor Zelliot
- "Foreigner" and "tribe" as barbarian (mleccha) in early North India / Aloka Parasher-Sen
- Is there a Tamil race? / Dagmar Hellman-Rajanayagam
- The tyranny of labels / Romila Thapar
- Representing the other? Sanskrit sources and the Muslims / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
- Vaiṣṇava perceptions of Muslims in sixteenth-century Bengal / J.T. O'Connell
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This collection of 11essays discusses different historiographical approaches to the study of subordinate and marginal groups in early India. They attempt to understand the historical roots of social oppression and exclusion in the subcontinent, making an early historical phenomenon directly relevant to an issue that causes concern even today.
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