The untouchables of India

by Deliège, Robert

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Title Statements

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

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001.
Edition:English ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berg
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001.

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The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 229 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1859732143, 9781859732144, 1859732097, 9781859732090
oclc:ocm50623953
LC Classification:DS422.C3
Dewey Decimal:954

The Untouchables: An Overview -- Untouchability: Theories of Caste -- The Ambiguity of Untouchables -- Untouchable Myths of Origin -- Discrimination, Disabilities and Segregation -- Untouchable Occupations -- Emancipation Movements -- B.R. Ambedkar: Leader of the Untouchables -- Positive Discrimination.

Subjects

Caste Caste -- History. -- India Castes -- Histoire. -- Inde Dalits Dalits -- History. -- India History Inde -- Conditions sociales -- 1947- India India -- Social conditions -- 1947- Intouchables -- Histoire. -- Inde Since 1947 Social conditions