Challenging Untouchability: Dalit Initiative and Experience from Karnataka (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge) - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

The contributors to this volume describe the status of rural untouchable castes and study their efforts to challenge the daily humiliations they face. They reveal the vitality of Dalit movements and the contribution they are making to reshaping Indian society. This book provides a vivid account of a section of the Indian population which is either ignored or misrepresented.

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About the Author

S R Charlsey is in the Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow. G K Karanth is at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

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ISBN 10:  0761992642 ISBN 13:  9780761992646
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 1998
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