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Title

The untouchables of India / Robert Deliège ; translated from the French by Nora Scott.

Author

Deliège, Robert.

Publication

Oxford, UK : New York : Berg, 1999.

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Description

xiii, 229 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as penetrating insights into its social and religious origins. The author persuasively demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion." "The situation of untouchables is crucial to the understanding of caste dynamics, especially in contemporary circumstances, but emphasis, particularly within anthropology, has been placed on the dominant aspects of the caste system rather than on those marginalized and excluded from it. This book redresses this problem and represents a vital contribution to studies of India, Hinduism, human rights, sociology, and anthropology."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Intouchables en Inde. English

Alternative Title

Intouchables en Inde.

Subject

• Caste > India > History
• Dalits > India > History
• India > Social conditions > 1947-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Untouchables: An Overview -- 2. Untouchability: Theories of Caste -- 3. The Ambiguity of Untouchables -- 4. Untouchable Myths of Origin -- 5. Discrimination, Disabilities and Segregation -- 6. Untouchable Occupations -- 7. Emancipation Movements -- 8. B.R. Ambedkar Leader of the Untouchables -- 9. Positive Discrimination.

ISBN

• 1859732097
• 1859732143 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library