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Untouchability in rural India

Title
Untouchability in rural India / Ghanshyam Shah [and others].
Publication
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
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Additional Authors
Shah, Ghanshyam.
Description
216 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
ISBN
  • 076193507X (paper back)
  • 9780761935070 (paper back)
  • 8178296624 (India : pb)
  • 9788178296623 (India : pb)
LCCN
2006019476
OCLC
  • ocm70176800
  • 70176800
  • SCSB-5357457
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries