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Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India / by Ramnarayan S. Rawat.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.Description: xix, 272 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm+ISBN:
  • 9780253355584 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0253355583 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780253222626 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0253222621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9788178243559
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.452 RAW P12R
Contents:
Introduction: Untouchable boundaries : Chamars and the politics of identity and history -- Making Chamars criminal : the crime of cattle poisoning -- Investigating the stereotype : Chamar peasants and agricultural laborers -- Is the leather industry a Chamar enterprise? : the making of leatherworkers -- Struggle for identities : Chamar histories and politics -- From Chamars to Dalits : the making of an achhut identity and politics, 1927-56 -- Conclusion: Overcoming domination : the emergence of a new achhut identity -- Appendix: Statistical tables -- Glossary.
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301.452 RAO P09D Dividing dalits : 301.452 RAO P10E Education of weaker sections : 301.452 RAW P05D Dalit and the law in 21st century / 301.452 RAW P12R Reconsidering untouchability : 301.452 RES P05R Reservation and private sector : 301.452 SAC P01P People at the bottom : 301.452 SAH P05R Rural development :

Introduction: Untouchable boundaries : Chamars and the politics of identity and history -- Making Chamars criminal : the crime of cattle poisoning -- Investigating the stereotype : Chamar peasants and agricultural laborers -- Is the leather industry a Chamar enterprise? : the making of leatherworkers -- Struggle for identities : Chamar histories and politics -- From Chamars to Dalits : the making of an achhut identity and politics, 1927-56 -- Conclusion: Overcoming domination : the emergence of a new achhut identity -- Appendix: Statistical tables -- Glossary.

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