Humiliation : claims and context / edited by Gopal Guru.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guru, Gopal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humiliation--Congresses.

Humiliation.

Humiliation--Social aspects--India--Congresses.

Social aspects.

India.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Contributed articles presented at a seminar.

Contents:

Introduction : Theorizing humiliation / Gopal Guru

Logic of humiliation / Bhikhu Parekh

Humiliation : politics and the cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation / Ashis Nandy

Humiliation and justice / Upendra Baxi

Understanding humiliation / Sanjay Palshikar

Bereft of being : the humiliations of untouchability / V. Geetha

Untouchability, filth, and the public domain / Valerian Rodrigues

Humiliation in a crematorium / Peter Ronald deSouza

Eauality for what? Or the troublesome relation between egalitarianism and respect / Neera Chandhoke

Political economy of humiliation : tale of a failed strike / Suhas Palshikar

Against untouchability : the discourses of Gandhi and Ambedkar / Thomas Pantham

Rejection of rejection : foregrounding self-respect / Gopal Guru.

Notes:

"This volume comprises papers that were first presented at a conference on humiliation held in Ranikhet in 2002"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-238).

ISBN:

9780198060307

0198060300

OCLC:

458895978

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