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The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India / Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelsohn, Oliver, author.
- Vicziany, Marika, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ; 4.
- Contemporary South Asia ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dalits--India--Politics and government.
- Dalits.
- Dalits--India--Economic conditions.
- Dalits--India--Social conditions.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as 'Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-61221-4
- 0-511-00423-0
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