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Book Synopsis Rethinking untouchability by : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Download or read book Rethinking untouchability written by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar’s role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar’s main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India’s political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
Book Synopsis Reconsidering Untouchability by : Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Download or read book Reconsidering Untouchability written by Ramnarayan S. Rawat and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Challenges and revises our understanding of the historical and contemporary role of Dalits in Indian society. A pathbreaking book that rightfully restores the historical agency of and gives voice to Dalits in North India." --Anand A. Yang, University of Washington --
Book Synopsis Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability by : Christophe Jaffrelot
Download or read book Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years Ambedkar battled alone against the Indian political establishment, including Gandhi, who resisted his attempt to formalize and codify a separate identity for the Dalits. Nonetheless, he became law minister in the first government of independent India and, more important, was elected chairman of the committee which drafted the Indian Constitution. Here he modified Gandhian attempts to influence the Indian polity. He then distanced himself from politics and sought solace in Buddhism, to which he converted in 1956, a few months before his death." "Jaffrelot focuses on Ambedkar's three key roles: as social theorist, as statesman and politician, and as an advocate of conversion to Buddhism as an escape route for India's Dalits. In each case he pioneered new strategies that proved effective in his lifetime and still resonate today."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Untouchables of India by : Robert Deliège
Download or read book The Untouchables of India written by Robert Deliège and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Download or read book Untouchable written by S. M. Michael and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the enduring legacy of untouchability in India, this book challenges the ways in which the Indian experience has been represented in Western scholarship. The authors introduce the long tradition of Dalit emancipatory struggle and present a sustained critique of academic discourse on the dynamics of caste in Indian society. Case studies complement these arguments, underscoring the perils and problems that Dalits face in a contemporary context of communalized politics and market reforms.
Book Synopsis The Untouchables in Contemporary India by : J. Michael Mahar
Download or read book The Untouchables in Contemporary India written by J. Michael Mahar and published by Tucson : University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of papers comprising an interdisciplinary research study of untouchability among low income castes in India - covers the untouchable's social role in the rural community, religion and reform, social policy efforts to abolish untouchability, etc., and examines the psychological aspects and sociological aspects for ex-untouchables of their newly-acquired social mobility. Bibliography pp. 431 to 481, illustrations and references.
Book Synopsis Destiny of Untouchables in India by : Shriram Nikam
Download or read book Destiny of Untouchables in India written by Shriram Nikam and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introspection on the part of Indian leadership in the 19th century lead to concentrated efforts to ameliorate the condition of the untouchables.
Book Synopsis The Untouchables in Modern India by : Bhagirath Poddar
Download or read book The Untouchables in Modern India written by Bhagirath Poddar and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Socio-Economic Conditions And Life Style Of Scavengers In General And Their Women Folk And Children In Particular Are Far From Satisfactory. They Are Looked Down By All The Other Sections Of The Society And Are Subjected To Humiliation And Oppression. They Have The Lowest Social Status. They Are The Much Exploited Groups Socially As Well As Economically. Considering These Points And The Situation Prevailing Among Them, The Present Study Has Been Undertaken To Explore And Provide The Facts And Figures To The Policy Makers, Administrators And Our Politicians Who Could Come Forward To Abolish This Most Indecent Trade.Although Government Of India Has Formed A National Commission For Scavengers In The Year 1997 But It Is Also Far Behind In Its Objectives, Yet To Be Achieved.
Book Synopsis The Untouchables' Rejection of Hinduism and Its Relation to Racial Ideologies by : Nejla Demirkaya
Download or read book The Untouchables' Rejection of Hinduism and Its Relation to Racial Ideologies written by Nejla Demirkaya and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Asian studies, grade: 1,0, University of Gottingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), course: Untouchability and religious identity in modern India, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with the concept of race as configured by low caste movements in India and social reformers seeking to abolish Untouchability and to improve the status of lower castes by way of opposing Brahmin hegemony. It will be shown that the formulation of a distinct racial identity often goes hand in hand with the rejection of Hinduism, the religion the discriminatory caste system originated from. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries there have been many different strategies by means of which the Untouchables have tried to escape their subjugated position within the discriminatory Hindu social order. Along inevitably came the need for the formulation of a separate identity that, obviously, did not emphasise their supposed ritual impurity or their long history of oppression, but rather a prestigious heritage and equality, if not superiority not only in a moral, but cultural and even biological sense. In line with the nationalist movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that drew much of their inspiration from Orientalist knowledge and colonial ethnographic theories regarding the racial origins of Indian society, another factor may have contributed to the Untouchables' rejection of Hindu orthodoxy: That of a racialised thinking and pronounced, separate ethnic identity. Thus, in what ways is the Untouchables' rejection of Hinduism related to racial ideologies?"
Book Synopsis Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization by : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Download or read book Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization written by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by caste and tribe, for instance, have long articulated with historical forms of global racial capitalism. Ultimately, this book attends to the narratives and experiences of those living at the margins, who strategically deploy racial and antiracist concepts to build international solidarity movements beyond the narrow confines of the Indian nation-state. In so doing, it hopes to derive insights on the necessity of transnational translations, even as it directs renewed attention to the specificity of regional hierarchies that shape everyday life and death in India. This book is a significant new contribution to addressing fundamental questions of caste, race, and religious politics in India and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Geography, History and Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Money by : Bernard Lietaer
Download or read book Rethinking Money written by Bernard Lietaer and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.
Download or read book Untouchables written by Narendra Jadhav and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Stigma to Assertion by : Mikael Aktor
Download or read book From Stigma to Assertion written by Mikael Aktor and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles, written by distinguished scholars in the field, addresses these and other important pre-and post-independence developments impinging on the notion of Untouchability and the Hindu caste system. By putting these developments in a wider temporal perspective-covering pre-colonial textual material as well as recent debates over the rights and identity of the Untouchables - this volume can be seen as a significant contribution to an understanding of why caste continues to play an important role in contemporary India. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Outcaste Bombay written by Juned Shaikh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city’s economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste system, mapping the transformation of the city as urban planners marked Dalit neighborhoods as slums that needed to be demolished in order to build a modern Bombay. Drawing from rare sources written by the urban poor and Dalits in the Marathi language—including novels, poems, and manifestos—Outcaste Bombay examines how language and literature became a battleground for cultural politics. Through careful scrutiny of one city’s complex social fabric, this study illuminates issues that remain vital for labor activists and urban planners around the world.
Book Synopsis Caste System, Untouchability, and the Depressed by : Hiroyuki Kotani
Download or read book Caste System, Untouchability, and the Depressed written by Hiroyuki Kotani and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On India; articles selected from a Japanese text and translated into English.
Book Synopsis Religion as Social Vision by : Mark Juergensmeyer
Download or read book Religion as Social Vision written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1982-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Untouchable Community in South India by : Michael Moffatt
Download or read book An Untouchable Community in South India written by Michael Moffatt and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole, and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India, Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes. Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village life, they replicate in their own community nearly every institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes, they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
