The Untouchables. Subordination, poverty and the state in moden India. - MARIKA VICZIANY [ED.].|MENDELSOHN, OLIVER
subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India
KORTE INHOUD
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 â€~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.
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1998Uitgever: Cambridge University Press289 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521556716ISBN-13: 9780521556712Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: xviij, 290pp., tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Contents: 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. Untouchab...
