From Untouchable to Dalit

From Untouchable to Dalit
Author: Eleanor Zelliot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This Collection Of Essays Spans The History Of The Movement From Its Nineteenth Century Roots To The Most Recent Growth Of Dalit Literature, And Includes The Political Developments And The Buddhist Conversion. In All 16 Essays Are Collected In The Volume. They Are Thematically Divided Into Four Different Parts, Viz., Background, Politics, Religion And Dalit Literature.

Untouchables

Untouchables
Author: Narendra Jadhav
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-03-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520252639

In the tradition of "Kaffir Boy," this international bestseller "captures the life of India's villages and Bombay's slums with an anthropologist's precision and a novelist's humanity" ("Asia Times").

Growing up Untouchable in India

Growing up Untouchable in India
Author: Vasant Moon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2002-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0585394067

'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies

Untouchable!

Untouchable!
Author: Barbara R. Joshi
Publisher: Minority Rights Group Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1986
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780862324599

Dalit

Dalit
Author: V. T. Rajshekar Shetty
Publisher: Atlanta ; Ottawa : Clarity Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1987
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Every hour -- two Darts are assaulted. Every day -- three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered, two Dalit houses are burnt". -- Human Rights Education Movement in India

Untouchable

Untouchable
Author: S. M. Michael
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781555876975

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.

British Untouchables

British Untouchables
Author: Mr Paul Ghuman
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2013-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1409494314

Dalits, formerly called 'untouchables', remain the most oppressed community in India, and indeed in South Asia and have, until recently, been denied human and civic rights. On emigration to the UK and other Western countries they faced a double disadvantage: caste discrimination and racial discrimination from 'white' society. However, in the late 1990s, second-generation Dalit professionals challenged their caste status and Brahmanism in the West and in South Asia. This work provides a major study on the issues facing the education of Dalit children and young people growing up in Britain. The book is based on extensive fieldwork and uses a qualitative research methodology, including in-depth interviews with parents, teachers and children, and detailed observations in homes, schools and places of worship e.g. gurdwaras. It offers a detailed view of areas such as socialisation of children, schooling and education, examination success, parental perceptions of education, bilingualism, acculturation patterns, cultural conflicts and caste and social identities. Central to this work, too, is a thorough introduction to the religious concepts that underpin the notion of 'untouchability' in Hinduism. This is a significant contribution to this under-researched community by a scholar who is one of the leading authorities on the education of South Asian children in Britain.

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability
Author: Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231136020

"For years Ambedkar battled alone against the Indian political establishment, including Gandhi, who resisted his attempt to formalize and codify a separate identity for the Dalits. Nonetheless, he became law minister in the first government of independent India and, more important, was elected chairman of the committee which drafted the Indian Constitution. Here he modified Gandhian attempts to influence the Indian polity. He then distanced himself from politics and sought solace in Buddhism, to which he converted in 1956, a few months before his death." "Jaffrelot focuses on Ambedkar's three key roles: as social theorist, as statesman and politician, and as an advocate of conversion to Buddhism as an escape route for India's Dalits. In each case he pioneered new strategies that proved effective in his lifetime and still resonate today."--BOOK JACKET.

Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste

Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Author: Toral Jatin Gajarawala
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0823245241

Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental--in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable caste") fiction. Drawing on a wide array of writings from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V. S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden aesthetics and politics of caste. How does caste color the novel? What are its formal tendencies? What generic constraints does it produce?

Untouchable Freedom

Untouchable Freedom
Author: Vijay Prashad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume is on the Balmikis of Delhi, who work as sanitation workers and keep the city clean. They live in poverty and face sustained discrimination. In response the Balmikis fight to liberate themselves. Untouchable Freedom is the first comprehensive study of this community and traces their struggles from the 1860s to the present, as they have moved from agricultural labor to urban work.