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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aktor, Mikael
Deliège, Robert
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2010.
Subjects:
Dalits > India.
Caste > India.
India > Social conditions.
Physical Description:230 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.