Every single one of us practises untouchability of a sort towards the Bhangis without even thinking about it - we employ only Bhangis to clean our toilets, refuse to let them into our kitchens or unconsciously ensure that we never really touch them.
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Review:
'Deserves notice in an academic publication both for the social challenges that it raises and for the implicit questions about caste, community, identity and reform that it provokes...a readable, relevant and necessary voice for change about a seemingly intractable malaise.' - Journal of Asian Studies
About the Author:
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is an independent writer, and the Co- Founder of ACCORD, an organisation working for the adivasis of the Gudalur Valley, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 818738042X
- ISBN 13 9788187380429
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages126
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