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Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India
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Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India / Ramnarayan S. Rawat.
ISBN
9780253355584 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253355583 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253222626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253222621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xix, 272 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2011
Series
Contemporary Indian studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Untouchable boundaries : Chamars and the politics of identity and history
Making Chamars criminal : the crime of cattle poisoning
Investigating the stereotype : Chamar peasants and agricultural laborers
Is the leather industry a Chamar enterprise? : the making of leatherworkers
Struggle for identities : Chamar histories and politics
From Chamars to Dalits : the making of an achhut identity and politics, 1927-56
Conclusion: Overcoming domination : the emergence of a new achhut identity
Appendix: Statistical tables
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