Renunciation and Untouchability in India: The Notional and the Empirical in the Caste Order
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- Synopsis
- This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 172 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781000113600
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780429317651, 9780367785987, 9781138594555
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/10/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Srinivasa Ramanujam, The right of Srinivasa Ramanujam to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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