| Oliver Mendelsohn, Marika Vicziany - History - 1998 - 312 pages
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 ... | |
| Mikael Aktor, Robert Deliège - Caste - 2010 - 234 pages
Untouchability was historically a set of discriminative practices that bound the lowest castes to low-status jobs and restricted their social mobility. Formally the practice ... | |
| Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf - History - 2006
In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the ... | |
| Ghanshyam Shah - History - 2004 - 373 pages
The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But in over half a century since Indian independence, this has not been ... | |
| Isabel Hilton - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 364 pages
In this "chilling picture of the brutality of Chinese repression in Tibet" ("Wall Street Journal"), Hilton relates the 1995 kidnap and disappearance of a seven-year-old Tibetan ... | |
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