Untouchability in Rural India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untouchability in Rural India write by Ghanshyam Shah. This book was released on 2006-08-04. Untouchability in Rural India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results of a very large survey covering 560 villages in eleven states. The field data is supplemented by information concerning associated forms of discrimination which Dalits face in their daily lives./-//-/This study finds that untouchability is practised in one form or another in almost 80 per cent of the villages surveyed. It is most prevalent in the religious and personal spheres. While the evidence presented in this book suggests that the more blatant and extreme forms of untouchability appear to have declined, discrimination is still practised in one form or another. The most widespread manifestations are in access to water and to cremation or burial grounds, as also when it comes to the major life cycle rituals. The survey also found that the notion of untouchability continues to pervade the public sphere, including in a host of state institutions and the interactions that occur within them.
Broken People
Broken People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Broken People write by Smita Narula. This book was released on 1999. Broken People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women and the Law.
An Untouchable Community in South India
An Untouchable Community in South India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Untouchable Community in South India write by Michael Moffatt. This book was released on 2015-03-08. An Untouchable Community in South India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole, and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India, Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes. Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village life, they replicate in their own community nearly every institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes, they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Reconsidering Untouchability
Reconsidering Untouchability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconsidering Untouchability write by Ramnarayan S. Rawat. This book was released on 2011-03-23. Reconsidering Untouchability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 --
Where India Goes
Where India Goes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where India Goes write by Diane Coffey. This book was released on 2017-07-10. Where India Goes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than half the people who defecate in the open live in India. Around the world, people live healthier lives than in centuries past, in part because latrines keep faecal germs away from growing babies. India is an exception. Most Indians do not use toilets or latrines, and so infants in India are more likely to die than in neighbouring poorer countries. Children in India are more likely to be stunted than children in sub-Saharan Africa.Where India Goes demonstrates that open defecation in India is not the result of poverty but a direct consequence of the caste system, untouchability and ritual purity. Coffey and Spears tell an unsanitized story of an unsanitary subject, with characters spanning the worlds of mothers and babies living in villages to local government implementers, senior government policymakers and international development professionals. They write of increased funding and ever more unused latrines.Where India Goes is an important and timely book that calls for the annihilation of caste and attendant prejudices, and a fundamental shift in policy perspectives to effect a crucial, much overdue change.
