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Author : Saurabh Dube
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436875
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Untouchable Pasts written by Saurabh Dube and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community, the Satnamis of Central India.
Author : James M. Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351797956
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Untouchable written by James M. Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 16% of India’s population – or over 100 million people – are untouchables. Most of them, despite decades of government efforts to improve their economic and social position, remain desperately poor, illiterate, subject to brutal discrimination and economic exploitation, and with no prospect for improvement of their condition. This is the autobiography, first published in 1979, of Muli, a 40-year-old untouchable of the Bauri caste, living in the Indian state of Orissa, as told to an American anthropologist. Muli is a narrator who combines rich descriptions of daily life with perceptive observations of his social surroundings. He describes with absorbing detail what it is like to be at the bottom of Indian life, and what happens when an untouchable attempts to break out of his accepted role.
Author : Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253222621
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
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 --
Author : Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029007
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A History of Prejudice written by Gyanendra Pandey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about prejudice and democracy, and the prejudice of democracy. In comparing the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits (once known as Untouchables) and African Americans - Gyanendra Pandey, the leading subaltern historian, examines the multiple dimensions of prejudice in two of the world's leading democracies. The juxtaposition of two very different locations and histories, and within each of them of varying public and private narratives of struggle, allows for an uncommon analysis of the limits of citizenship in modern societies and states. Pandey, with his characteristic delicacy, probes the histories of his protagonists to uncover a shadowy world where intolerance and discrimination are part of both public and private lives. This unusual and sobering book is revelatory in its exploration of the contradictory history of promise and denial that is common to the official narratives of nations such as India and the United States and the ideologies of many opposition movements.
Author : John Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317353811
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore written by John Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice and discrimination that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today, however, untouchability has disappeared from the public sphere and has been replaced by other notions of identity, leaving unanswered questions as to how and when this occurred. The untouchable migrant is also largely absent from popular narratives of the past. This book takes the "disappearance" as a starting point to examine a history of untouchable migration amongst Indians who arrived in Singapore from its modern founding as a British colony in the early nineteenth century through to its independence in 1965. Using oral history records, archival sources, colonial ethnography, newspapers and interviews, this book examines the lives of untouchable migrants through their everyday experience in an overseas multi-ethnic environment. It examines how these migrants who in many ways occupied the bottom rungs of their communities and colonial society, framed transnational issues of identity and social justice in relation to their experiences within the broader Indian diaspora in Singapore. The book trances the manner in which untouchable identities evolved and then receded in response to the dramatic social changes brought about by colonialism, war and post-colonial nationhood. By focusing on a subaltern group from the past, this study provides an alternative history of Indian migration to Singapore and a different perspective on the cultural conversations that have taken place between India and Singapore for much of the island's modern history.
Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Primus Books
ISBN 13 : 9380607172
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Approaches to History written by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.
Author : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526168715
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
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.
Author : Suryaraju Mattimalla
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Untouchable Poems written by Suryaraju Mattimalla and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summary of untouchable poetry would entail a discussion of the several topics and ideas that are typical of this genre. Identity and Marginalization: Untouchable poetry addresses the difficult issues of how identities are formed in response to marginalization and prejudice based on caste. The poets consistently depict social exclusion experiences and the struggles they faced to maintain their humanity and dignity. Social Injustice and Oppression: Untouchable poets, in fact, raise powerful and audible voices in opposition to the atrocities and social injustices that continue to be meted out to them, including caste violence and untouchability, in addition to being denied access to desirable jobs and education in society at large. Their poetry is a powerful cry for social fairness and reform. Untouchable poets typically use this technique to attack the dominant cultural norms and traditions that uphold caste-based inequalities and discriminatory practices. Additionally, he will present counterculture and alternative discourses that highlight the perspective and voice of the underprivileged. Since untouchable poetry offers voice to a community that has been marginalized and silenced due to opposition from the ruling class and established structures, it is generally seen as their resistance literature.
Author : Srinivasa Ramanujam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000113604
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Renunciation and Untouchability in India written by Srinivasa Ramanujam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.
Author : Jon Keune
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197574858
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Shared Devotion, Shared Food written by Jon Keune and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? In this book, Jon Keune deftly examines the root of this deceptively simple question. The modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, Jon Keune argues that, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. Shared Devotion, Shared Food explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, Shared Devotion, Shared Food reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.
Author : Divya Cherian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520390059
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Merchants of Virtue written by Divya Cherian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power -- Purity -- Hierarchy -- Discipline -- Non-harm -- Austerity -- Chastity.
Author : Prachi Deshpande
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511434
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Creative Pasts written by Prachi Deshpande and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety of political projects including anticolonial/Hindu nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concerning the meaning of tradition, culture, and the experience of colonialism and modernity. Sampling from a rich body of literary and cultural sources, Deshpande highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the deep connections between historical and literary narratives. She traces the reproduction of the Maratha period in various genres and public arenas, its incorporation into regional political symbolism, and its centrality to the making of a modern Marathi regional consciousness. She also shows how historical memory provided a space for Indians to negotiate among their national, religious, and regional identities, pointing to history's deeper potential in shaping politics within thoroughly diverse societies. A truly unique study, Creative Pasts examines the practices of historiography and popular memory within a particular colonial context, and illuminates the impact of colonialism on colonized societies and cultures. Furthermore, it shows how modern history and historical memory are jointly created through the interplay of cultural activities, power structures, and political rhetoric.
Author : Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250788
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Peasant Pasts written by Vinayak Chaturvedi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Piotr Stolarski
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471042537
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book After History written by Piotr Stolarski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, living in the past and for the past was no longer tenable - no longer acceptable? What if, being stuck in the past became a force for alienation, breaking down and coming to seem like a false consciousness divorced from the present and from all true human happiness? What if history were dead? Would that matter...? After History: On the Death of History, and the New Culture by Dr. Piotr Stolarski, gets to grip with the pretensions and soul-destroying irrelevance of academic history - arguing that a new existential historiography abandoning a Man-centred Englightenment vision (and now allied to philosophy and theology) is possible and necessary. Analysing the significance, practices and characteristics of History in detail, the author argues for the abandonment of a History dead to and disdainful of the present, and sketches the possibilities left to historians after the "Death of History" - embodied in a Neo-Renaissance eclecticism allying faith to a reformed historiography.
Author : Saurabh Dube
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333371
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Stitches on Time written by Saurabh Dube and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA critical analysis of histories and anthropologies of South Asia, seen in relation to the subaltern studies project, and several examples of how colonial history might be done differently./div
Author : Brittany Rust
Publisher : Chosen Books
ISBN 13 : 1493414623
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Untouchable written by Brittany Rust and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Caution for Those Who Think They're Beyond Temptation Too many Christians, especially those in ministry, believe they are untouchable--that they're too faithful to fall or too spiritual to give in to temptation. They deny any sort of weakness, fail to draw proper boundaries, and end up doing the very things they swore they'd never do. Pastor and author Brittany Rust was one such person--until she found herself in the middle of moral failure and a church-wide scandal. Bewildered, humiliated, and ashamed, she thought she was beyond redemption. But God's grace met her on the ground, and here she shares what she's learned through her painful journey. She unravels the myth of being untouchable, showing how we start to believe the lie, and how we can protect ourselves from temptation. Ultimately she shows that to truly flourish in life, you must be willing to admit weakness--and that no one is beyond God's redeeming love.
Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253000491
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Telling Lives in India written by David Arnold and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book serves as a window into the rich and revealing lives and self-representations of the particular individuals who have produced the life histories. In so doing, it makes very important broader points about the use of life histories in social science research in general and in the study of South Asian social-cultural life in particular." -- Sarah Lamb Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal. But what does it mean to narrate the story of a life, whether one's own or someone else's, orally or in writing? Which lives are worth telling, and who is authorized to tell them? The essays in this volume consider these questions through close examination of a wide range of biographies, autobiographies, diaries, and oral stories from India. Their subjects range from literary authors to housewives, politicians to folk heroes, and include young and old, women and men, the illiterate and the learned. Contributors are David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn, Sudipta Kaviraj, Barbara D. Metcalf, Kirin Narayan, Francesca Orsini, Jonathan P. Parry, Jean-Luc Racine, Josiane Racine, David Shulman, and Sylvia Vatuk.
