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Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this path-breaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighbourhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Reconsidering Untouchability
• Subtitle: Chamars and Dalit History in North India
• Author: Ramnarayan Rawat
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298
• EAN: 9780253222626
• ISBN: 0253222621
• ID: 04871138
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 442 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 153 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. March 2011

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