The Bhangi
Author : Shyamlal
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788171545506
Author : Shyamlal
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788171545506
Author : Dr. Rama Sharma
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788185880709
This bookis about the various aspects of sociocultural and economic marginality of Bhangis,their stigmatized identity and thier efforts to escape from thier marginal situation by bringing about changes in thier status. The awareness of exploitation and deprivation has led to unionization and politicization within the ambit of the democratic processes in india.
Author : Priyadarshini Vijaisri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9356405638
Essays on Violence: Pollution, Sacrifice and Madness is an exploration of the intersecting histories of caste and violence in the Indian context foregrounding ideational and temporal continuities and deep linkages between ideas, processes and events by combing historical sources with ethnographic data. Traversing the diverse and conflicting strands in Indian traditions, it traces the centrality of the idea of violence in discourses on sacrificial violence, self, body, evil and danger and their reverberations in critical moments of Indian history. The discourse on caste violence is unpacked through analysis of concepts like danda, matsyanyaya and vadhoavadha, religious and textual exegesis of negation and demonization and historical sites to locate processes of transitions in cultures of violence via the Telangana armed uprising and imagined cartography of the incipient nation. By drawing attention to the nature of caste violence in postcolonial Andhra, the book offers glimpses into the emergence of contradictory pulls in the forging of caste identities, nationhood and the shifts in the subjectivity of outcastes within the context of repressive political culture of postcolonial democratic experience.
Author : Rosa Maria Perez
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788180280146
This Book Presents Fieldwork Done On The Vankar A Caste Of Untouchable Weavers In Gujarat. This Book Confronts The Western Perception Of Untouchability With The Notion Of Reversibility, And A Fresh Translation Of Social Norms.
Author : S. K. Chandhoke
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Chhatera Bahadarpur (India)
ISBN : 9788170222538
Author : BIPUL RANJAN SARKAR
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1684664829
During his historic tour in riot-torn Noakhali on 19 January, 1947, Mahatma Gandhi was seen removing excreta from the road with the help of some dry leaves. Urchins wanted to make it inaccessible for him. The companions objected to the 78 year old man clearing the thoroughfare of human excreta. He replied, “You little know the joy it gives to me.” Cleanliness was his obsession. He did not hesitate to clean horrifying insanitary condition of camps or public places with broom and bucket in hand. He loved to call himself a bhangi (a scavenger). It was no attention-grabber. It had nothing to do with the promotion of his political career as his mission cleanliness started more than three decades before he joined politics. Initiation to sanitation came to him as a natural corollary quite consistent with the basic philosophy of his life. His contemplation of ecological cleanliness with a scientific bent of mind so early was amazing. The world picked up the issue long after him. The inimitability of his approach was that he did not preach with others to do what he himself did not do.
Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788171547661
The Two Volumes On Rajasthan Are A Part Of People Of India Project Undertaken By The Anthropological Survey Of India. The Volumes Contain An Ethnographic Survey Of All The The 228 Communities That Inhabit Rajasthan. An Excellent Reference Tool.
Author : Michel Seymour
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230285562
Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada. It provides an occasion to develop a sophisticated understanding of societies characterized by religious, ethnic and cultural diversity.
Author : Susan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521798426
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author : Oliver Mendelsohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521556712
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as â€~Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology.