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Reconsidering untouchability Chamars and Dalit history in North India
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
c2011.
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| Collection: | Contemporary Indian studies
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| Accès en ligne: | http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34714 |
Table des matières:
- 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.