Caste System Untouchability and the Depressed - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8173042047 ISBN 13 : 9788173042041

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2024

Synopsis

The history of untouchability remains a subject yet to be fully explored, scrutinized and reconstructed, and not without tremendous effort. In unraveling the elements of this complex socio-historical fabric, several questions and circumstances are salient. To begin with, what is the origin of the social discrimination that continues to be perpetrated upon certain social groups? What has been the relationship between social dis­crimination and the concept of pollution or sin? These problems have special relevance to the emergence of socially discriminated groups in ancient India like Ca]n]dala. What, then, is the difference between social discrimination in ancient India and untouchability in medieval India? The formative process of untouchability is still clouded in this regard with the darkness or obscurity history. The focal point of this process might be assumed to be the post-Gupta period, but only a more minute investigation will lead to its confirmation. Then again, what is the reality of social dis­crimination against the depressed castes in medieval India? Its historical change and areal diversity poses a perplexing issue.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hiroyuki Kotani is Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Metropolitan University. His publications include: Western India in Historical Transition, Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries (2002): Marga: Ways of Liberation, Empowerment and Social Change in Maharashtra (2008) (co-edited with Masao Naito and Iwao Shima).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173042047
• ISBN 13: 9788173042041
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 299
• Éditeur: Kotani H.
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