Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Glossary
- Preface
- 1 Who are the Untouchables?
- 2 The question of the ‘Harijan atrocity’
- 3 Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956
- 4 Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination
- 5 Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs
- 6 The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries
- 7 Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956
- 8 The question of reservation: the lives and careers of some Scheduled Caste MPs and MLAs
- 9 Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India
- Bibliography
- Index
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Glossary
- Preface
- 1 Who are the Untouchables?
- 2 The question of the ‘Harijan atrocity’
- 3 Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956
- 4 Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination
- 5 Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs
- 6 The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries
- 7 Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956
- 8 The question of reservation: the lives and careers of some Scheduled Caste MPs and MLAs
- 9 Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The UntouchablesSubordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, pp. xi - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998