Subordinate and marginal groups in early India
By: edited by Aloka Parasher-Sen.
Contributors: Parasher-Sen, Aloka.
Series: Oxford in India readings.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Marginality, Social -- India -- History -- To 1500.
Description: On social marginality in India until 1500; contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The despised castes : North-East India in Buddha's time / Richard Fick; title: Slavery in ancient India : as depicted in Pāli and Sanskrit texts / Dev Raj Chanana; title: Evolution of untouchability in Tamil Nadu up to AD 1600 / K.R. Hanumanthan; title: Caṇḍāla and the origin of untouchability / Vivekananda Jha; title: Women, men, and beasts : the Jatakas as popular tradition / Uma Chakravarti; title: Chokhamela and Eknath : two bhakti modes of legitimacy for modern change / Eleanor Zelliot; title: "Foreigner" and "tribe" as barbarian (mleccha) in early North India / Aloka Parasher-Sen; title: Is there a Tamil race? / Dagmar Hellman-Rajanayagam; title: The tyranny of labels / Romila Thapar; title: Representing the other? Sanskrit sources and the Muslims / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya; title: Vaiṣṇava perceptions of Muslims in sixteenth-century Bengal / J.T. O'Connell.