Author: Ishwarlal Pragji DesaiPublisher: Bombay : Popular Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Dalits
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Report of a research project conducted in 1971-1972.
Untouchability in Rural Gujarat
Author: Ishwarlal Pragji DesaiPublisher: Bombay : Popular Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Dalits
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Report of a research project conducted in 1971-1972.
Untouchability In Rural Gujarat
Author: DesaiWater Facilities for the Untouchables in Rural Gujarat
Author: Ishwarlal Pragji DesaiPublisher: New Delhi : Indian Council of Social Science Research
ISBN:
Category : Dalits
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Untouchability in Rural India
Author: Ghanshyam ShahPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761935070
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results of a very large survey covering 560 villages in eleven states. The field data is supplemented by information concerning associated forms of discrimination which Dalits face in their daily lives./-//-/This study finds that untouchability is practised in one form or another in almost 80 per cent of the villages surveyed. It is most prevalent in the religious and personal spheres. While the evidence presented in this book suggests that the more blatant and extreme forms of untouchability appear to have declined, discrimination is still practised in one form or another. The most widespread manifestations are in access to water and to cremation or burial grounds, as also when it comes to the major life cycle rituals. The survey also found that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including in a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.
Kings and Untouchables
Author: Rosa Maria PerezPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788180280146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This Book Presents Fieldwork Done On The Vankar A Caste Of Untouchable Weavers In Gujarat. This Book Confronts The Western Perception Of Untouchability With The Notion Of Reversibility, And A Fresh Translation Of Social Norms.
Broken People
Author: Smita NarulaPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women and the Law.
The Other Gujarat
Author: Takashi ShinodaPublisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171548743
Category : Gujarat (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Study Focuses On The Socio-Economic Transformation Among The Weaker Sections And Examines This Change Over Time In Gujarat. The Contributors Are Scholars Of International Repute.
Untouchable
Author: S. M. MichaelPublisher: 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.
Pogrom in Gujarat
Author: Parvis Ghassem-FachandiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691151776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death. The ruling nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party blamed Gujarat's entire Muslim minority for the tragedy and incited fellow Hindus to exact revenge. The resulting violence left more than one thousand people dead--most of them Muslims--and tens of thousands more displaced from their homes. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi witnessed the bloodshed up close. In Pogrom in Gujarat, he provides a riveting ethnographic account of collective violence in which the doctrine of ahimsa--or nonviolence--and the closely associated practices of vegetarianism became implicated by legitimating what they formally disavow. Ghassem-Fachandi looks at how newspapers, movies, and other media helped to fuel the pogrom. He shows how the vegetarian sensibilities of Hindus and the language of sacrifice were manipulated to provoke disgust against Muslims and mobilize the aspiring middle classes across caste and class differences in the name of Hindu nationalism. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Gujarat's culture and politics and the close ties he shared with some of the pogrom's sympathizers, Ghassem-Fachandi offers a strikingly original interpretation of the different ways in which Hindu proponents of ahimsa became complicit in the very violence they claimed to renounce.
Author: