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From stigma to assertion : untouchability, identity and politics in early and modern India
Title
From stigma to assertion : untouchability, identity and politics in early and modern India / edited by Mikael Aktor and Robert Deliège.
ISBN
9788763507752 (pbk.)
8763507757 (pbk.)
Published
Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.
Physical Description
230 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 04, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : is there still untouchability in India? / Robert Deliège
Untouchability in Brahminical law books : ritual and economic control / Mikael Aktor
The early voices of untouchables : the Bhakti saints / Eleanor Zelliot
Untouchability and the Indian nationalist movement / Jocelyn Clarke
Dalit theology and the politics of untouchability among the Indian Christian churches / Andrew Wyatt
Untouchable identity and its reconstruction / Simon Charsley
Relegitimizing caste discrimination in Uttar Pradesh : towards a post-Mandal untouchability? / Kathinka Frøystad
Caste as a political tool : the case of the Carmakars of Dharavi (Mumbai) / Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky.
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