Reconsidering Untouchability - Chamars and Dalit History in North India

Informationen zum Autor Ramnarayan S. Rawat Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Toward a new history of caste and untouchability Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ramnarayan Rawat, Ramnarayan S Rawat, Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Rawat Ramnarayan S
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.03.2011
• EAN: 9780253222626
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22262-6
• Seiten: 298
• Serien: Contemporary Indian Studies; Indiana University Press; Contemporary Indian Studies
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien