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The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Rupa Viswanath
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Description for The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Hardback. Series: Cultures of History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRGP; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 728.
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"-with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in ... Read more
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"-with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cultures of History
Condition
New
Weight
728 g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231163064
SKU
V9780231163064
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About Rupa Viswanath
Rupa Viswanath is professor of Indian religions at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Gottingen. She has held positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge. Her interests include national minorities and practices of minoritization, comparative secularisms, slavery and race, transnational religious movements, religions and representative democracy, and political theory and the global ... Read more
Reviews for The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Rupa Viswanath has carried out an extraordinary feat of historical scholarship in the new field of Dalit studies. Skillfully negotiating two different archives-the official and the missionary-she grounds the cultural struggles of the untouchable castes of Tamil Nadu in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the political economy of land and labor. Viswanath powerfully argues that there was a government-missionary ... Read more