Sanitation in India : a historico-sociological survey / Hektukar Jha, former professor of Sociology Patna University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jha, Hetukar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanitation--India--History.

Sanitation.

Sanitation--Social aspects--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (60 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Gyan, 2016.

Summary:

Sanitation is now increasingly recognized as one of the most 'publicly relevant issues' in our country. The book deals with why it is appropriate, rather, necessary for this issue to be duly considered as a field of historiosociological studies in the Indian academia. Further, the details of the habits and practices regarding sanitation which prevailed in different periods of our history have been discussed. Besides, an attempt has also been made to examine the sociopolitical and cultural conditions which forged and promoted the association of some communities with the tasks of sewage disposal, cleaning streets, etc. The assumption guiding the present endeavour, at least implicitly, is that the traditions and practices relating to sanitation belong to our cultural sphere and, therefore, deserve an important space on the agenda of studies and research in social sciences.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyrights

About the Book

About the Author

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Sanitation and Society in the Colonial Period

3. Untouchability and Sanitation in Pre-Modern era

4. Appendix A

5. Appendix B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 19, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

81-212-5284-9

OCLC:

958572396