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Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India - Couverture rigide

Rawat, Ramnarayan S.

 
9780253355584: Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0253355583 ISBN 13 : 9780253355584
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this path-breaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighbourhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this path-breaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighbourhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253355583
ISBN 13 
9780253355584
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
298
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