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Untouchability in rural India
Title
Untouchability in rural India / Ghanshyam Shah [and others].
ISBN
9780761935070
076193507X (paper back)
9788178296623
8178296624 (India : pb)
Published
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
Physical Description
216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-208) and index.
Contents
Introduction : caste, untouchability and Dalits in rural India
Rural untouchability today : forms and sites
'Unclean' occupations : savaged by tradition
Dalit women and the practice of untouchability
Violence against Dalits
Demanding rights, equality and dignity
Conclusion.
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