Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany

The Untouchables

Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India
Herausgeber: Breman, Jan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In a compelling account of the lives of those at the bottom of Indian society, the authors explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background that led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521556712
• ISBN-10: 0521556716
• Artikelnr.: 21153095

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary
1. Who are the Untouchables?
2. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity'
3. Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956
4. Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination
5. Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs
6. The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries
7. Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956
8. The question of reservation: lives and careers of some scheduled castes MPs and MLAs
9. Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India
Bibliography
Index.