From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity and Politics in Early Modern India - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8763507757 ISBN 13: 9788763507752

Verlag: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Untouchability was historically a set of discriminative practices that bound the lowest castes to low-status jobs and restricted their social mobility. Formally the practice was abolished with the constitution of independent India. In order to compensate for the social and economic setback caused by centuries? discrimination a reservation policy that guaranteed the former untouchables access to education and jobs was introduced. These measures have changed the life conditions of the targeted groups, but they have also created tensions in a society where many other groups experience economic stress. The essays in this book engage in critical discussions of the Hindu caste system and put the colonial and post-colonial notion of Untouchability in a wider temporal perspective, covering pre-colonial textual material as well as present-day debates over Dalit rights and identity. Contributors: Mikael Aktor, Simon Charsley, Jocelyn Clarke, Robert Deliège Kathinka Frøystad, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Andrew Wyatt, Eleanor Zelliot.

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Mikael Aktor is associate professor of History of Religion at the University of Southern Denmark. Robert Deliège is professor of Social Anthropology at ACLA Unité d?anthropologie culturelle et du langage, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8763507757
• ISBN 13: 9788763507752
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
• Herausgeber: Deliège Robert, Aktor Mikael
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