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 Info | Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010. |
| Description | 230 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011655132 |
| ISBN | 9788763507752 (pbk.) |