From stigma to assertion untouchability, identity and politics in early and modern India / edited by Mikael Aktor and Robert Deiege.

Other author Aktor, Mikael.
Other author Deliège, Robert.
Other author European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies 1998 : Prague, Czech Republic)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCopenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.
Description230 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction : is there still untouchability in India? / Robert Deliège -- Untouchability in Brahminical law books : ritual and economic control / Mikael Aktor -- The early voices of untouchables : the Bhakti saints / Eleanor Zelliot -- Untouchability and the Indian nationalist movement / Jocelyn Clarke -- Dalit theology and the politics of untouchability among the Indian Christian churches / Andrew Wyatt -- Untouchable identity and its reconstruction / Simon Charsley -- Relegitimizing caste discrimination in Uttar Pradesh : towards a post-Mandal untouchability? / Kathinka Frøystad -- Caste as a political tool : the case of the Carmakars of Dharavi (Mumbai) / Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2011655132
ISBN9788763507752 (pbk.)