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The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India

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 ...
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From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity and Politics in Early and ...

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 ...
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A Concise History of Modern India

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 ...
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Caste and Democratic Politics in India

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 ...
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Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a ...

Ian Stone - Business & Economics - 2002 - 396 pages
A detailed study of the local effects of the British Raj's irrigation schemes.
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The Search for the Panchen Lama

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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