Author: Bhagirath Poddar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
The Untouchables in Modern India
Author: Bhagirath Poddar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Untouchable
Author: S. M. Michael
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555876975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555876975
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
The Untouchables in Contemporary India
Author: J. Michael Mahar
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
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.
Ants Among Elephants
Author: Sujatha Gidla
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0865478112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary -- and yet how typical -- her family history truly was. Her mother and uncles were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor people, little changed. In rich, novelistic prose, Ants Among Elephants tells Gidla's extraordinary family story detailing her uncle's emergence as a poet and revolutionary and her mother's struggle for emancipation through education.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 0865478112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary -- and yet how typical -- her family history truly was. Her mother and uncles were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor people, little changed. In rich, novelistic prose, Ants Among Elephants tells Gidla's extraordinary family story detailing her uncle's emergence as a poet and revolutionary and her mother's struggle for emancipation through education.
The Untouchables
Author: Oliver Mendelsohn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as â€~Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as â€~Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology.
The untouchables in contemporary India
Author: J. Michael Mahar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170334866
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170334866
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Broken People
Author: Smita Narula
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women and the Law.
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women and the Law.
Untouchables
Author: Narendra Jadhav
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520252639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the tradition of "Kaffir Boy," this international bestseller "captures the life of India's villages and Bombay's slums with an anthropologist's precision and a novelist's humanity" ("Asia Times").
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520252639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In the tradition of "Kaffir Boy," this international bestseller "captures the life of India's villages and Bombay's slums with an anthropologist's precision and a novelist's humanity" ("Asia Times").
The Caste Question
Author: Anupama Rao
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520943376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Another World is Possible
Author: Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317490452
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
'Another World is Possible' examines the many peoples who have mobilized religion and spirituality to forge identity. Some claim direct links to indigenous spiritual practices; others have appropriated externally introduced religions, modifying these with indigenous perspectives and practices. The voices of Black people from around the world are presented in essays ranging from the Indian subcontinent, Japan and Australia to Africa, the UK and the USA. From creation narratives to trickster heroes, from the role of spirituality in HIV positive South Africa to its place in mental health and among the poor, spirituality is shown to be essential to the survival of individuals and communities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317490452
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
'Another World is Possible' examines the many peoples who have mobilized religion and spirituality to forge identity. Some claim direct links to indigenous spiritual practices; others have appropriated externally introduced religions, modifying these with indigenous perspectives and practices. The voices of Black people from around the world are presented in essays ranging from the Indian subcontinent, Japan and Australia to Africa, the UK and the USA. From creation narratives to trickster heroes, from the role of spirituality in HIV positive South Africa to its place in mental health and among the poor, spirituality is shown to be essential to the survival of individuals and communities.