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| Author | : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2024-03-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1526168715 |
This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar’s role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar’s main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India’s political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
| Author | : Ramnarayan S. Rawat |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2011-03-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253222621 |
"Challenges and revises our understanding of the historical and contemporary role of Dalits in Indian society. A pathbreaking book that rightfully restores the historical agency of and gives voice to Dalits in North India." --Anand A. Yang, University of Washington --
| 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.
| Author | : Robert Deliège |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"This book addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as penetrating insights into its social and religious origins. The author persuasively demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion." "The situation of untouchables is crucial to the understanding of caste dynamics, especially in contemporary circumstances, but emphasis, particularly within anthropology, has been placed on the dominant aspects of the caste system rather than on those marginalized and excluded from it. This book redresses this problem and represents a vital contribution to studies of India, Hinduism, human rights, sociology, and anthropology."--Jacket
| Author | : J. Michael Mahar |
| Publisher | : Tucson : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Compilation of papers comprising an interdisciplinary research study of untouchability among low income castes in India - covers the untouchable's social role in the rural community, religion and reform, social policy efforts to abolish untouchability, etc., and examines the psychological aspects and sociological aspects for ex-untouchables of their newly-acquired social mobility. Bibliography pp. 431 to 481, illustrations and references.
| Author | : Shriram Nikam |
| Publisher | : Deep and Deep Publications |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9788176290500 |
Introspection on the part of Indian leadership in the 19th century lead to concentrated efforts to ameliorate the condition of the untouchables.
| Author | : Bhagirath Poddar |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Caste |
| ISBN | : |
The Socio-Economic Conditions And Life Style Of Scavengers In General And Their Women Folk And Children In Particular Are Far From Satisfactory. They Are Looked Down By All The Other Sections Of The Society And Are Subjected To Humiliation And Oppression. They Have The Lowest Social Status. They Are The Much Exploited Groups Socially As Well As Economically. Considering These Points And The Situation Prevailing Among Them, The Present Study Has Been Undertaken To Explore And Provide The Facts And Figures To The Policy Makers, Administrators And Our Politicians Who Could Come Forward To Abolish This Most Indecent Trade.Although Government Of India Has Formed A National Commission For Scavengers In The Year 1997 But It Is Also Far Behind In Its Objectives, Yet To Be Achieved.
| Author | : Nejla Demirkaya |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2015-10-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783668058378 |
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Asian studies, grade: 1,0, University of Gottingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies), course: Untouchability and religious identity in modern India, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with the concept of race as configured by low caste movements in India and social reformers seeking to abolish Untouchability and to improve the status of lower castes by way of opposing Brahmin hegemony. It will be shown that the formulation of a distinct racial identity often goes hand in hand with the rejection of Hinduism, the religion the discriminatory caste system originated from. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries there have been many different strategies by means of which the Untouchables have tried to escape their subjugated position within the discriminatory Hindu social order. Along inevitably came the need for the formulation of a separate identity that, obviously, did not emphasise their supposed ritual impurity or their long history of oppression, but rather a prestigious heritage and equality, if not superiority not only in a moral, but cultural and even biological sense. In line with the nationalist movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that drew much of their inspiration from Orientalist knowledge and colonial ethnographic theories regarding the racial origins of Indian society, another factor may have contributed to the Untouchables' rejection of Hindu orthodoxy: That of a racialised thinking and pronounced, separate ethnic identity. Thus, in what ways is the Untouchables' rejection of Hinduism related to racial ideologies?"
| Author | : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2022-09-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000688313 |
Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by caste and tribe, for instance, have long articulated with historical forms of global racial capitalism. Ultimately, this book attends to the narratives and experiences of those living at the margins, who strategically deploy racial and antiracist concepts to build international solidarity movements beyond the narrow confines of the Indian nation-state. In so doing, it hopes to derive insights on the necessity of transnational translations, even as it directs renewed attention to the specificity of regional hierarchies that shape everyday life and death in India. This book is a significant new contribution to addressing fundamental questions of caste, race, and religious politics in India and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Geography, History and Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
| Author | : Bernard Lietaer |
| Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2013-02-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1609942981 |
This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.
