Rethinking untouchability

2024-03-12 Philosophy

Author : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Release : 2024-03-12
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Rethinking untouchability written by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza. This book was released on 2024-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reconsidering Untouchability

2011-03-23 History

Author : Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Release : 2011-03-23
Genre : History
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Download or read book Reconsidering Untouchability written by Ramnarayan S. Rawat. This book was released on 2011-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 --

Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization

2022-09-19 Social Science

Author : Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Release : 2022-09-19
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization written by Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza. This book was released on 2022-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability

2005 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability written by Christophe Jaffrelot. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Untouchables of India

1999 History

Author : Robert Deliège
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Untouchables of India written by Robert Deliège. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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

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