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Author Mendelsohn, Oliver.

Title The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India / Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Contemporary South Asia ; 4
Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ; 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283) and index.
Contents Who are the Untouchables? -- The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' -- Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956 -- Public policy I : adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination -- Public policy II : the anti-poverty programs -- The new Untouchables proletariat : a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries -- Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956 -- The question of reservation : the lives and careers of some scheduled caste MPs and MLAs -- Subordiantion, poverty and the state in modern India.
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Subject Dalits -- India -- Politics and government.
Dalits.
India.
Politics and government.
Dalits -- India -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Dalits -- India -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Chronological Term 1947-
Subject Inde -- Conditions sociales -- 1947-
Inde -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1947-
Chronological Term Since 1947
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Armoede.
Intouchables -- Inde -- 1945-
Onaanraakbaren.
Onderdrukking.
Added Author Vicziany, Marika.
Other Form: Print version: Mendelsohn, Oliver. Untouchables. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521553628 (DLC) 97027947 (OCoLC)37397862
ISBN 0511004230 (electronic book)
9780511004230 (electronic book)
9780511612213 (electronic book)
0511612214 (electronic book)
0521553628
0521556716 (paperback)
9780521553629
9780521556712