From stigma to assertion
Subtitle: untouchability, identity and politics in early and modern India
By: edited by Mikael Aktor and Robert Deiege
Contributors: Deliège, Robert, editor; European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (15th : 1998 : Prague, Czech Republic)
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen; Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9788763507752
Subjects: Dalits; Government policy; Social conditions; Congresses; Legal status, laws; Caste
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : is there still untouchability in India? / Robert Deliège; title: Untouchability in Brahminical law books : ritual and economic control / Mikael Aktor; title: The early voices of untouchables : the Bhakti saints / Eleanor Zelliot; title: Untouchability and the Indian nationalist movement / Jocelyn Clarke; title: Dalit theology and the politics of untouchability among the Indian Christian churches / Andrew Wyatt; title: Untouchable identity and its reconstruction / Simon Charsley; title: Relegitimizing caste discrimination in Uttar Pradesh : towards a post-Mandal untouchability? / Kathinka Frøystad; title: Caste as a political tool : the case of the Carmakars of Dharavi (Mumbai) / Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky.