Ramnarayan S Rawat

Reconsidering Untouchability

Chamars and Dalit History in North India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighborhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 188mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222626
• ISBN-10: 0253222621
• Artikelnr.: 30207324

Autorenporträt

Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Untouchable Boundaries: Chamars and the Politics of Identity
and History
1. Making Chamars Criminal: The Crime of Cattle Poisoning
2. Investigating the Stereotype: Chamar Peasants and Agricultural Laborers
3. Is the Leather Industry a Chamar Enterprise? The Making of
Leatherworkers
4. Struggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics
5. From Chamars to Dalits: The Making of an Achhut Identity and Politics,
1927-56
Conclusion: Overcoming Domination: The Emergence of a New Achhut Identity
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index