Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India

Ramnarayan S. Rawat

Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this path-breaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighbourhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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[目次]

  • Introduction Untouchable Boundaries: Chamars and the Politics of Identity and History
  • 1. Making Chamars Criminal: The Crime of Cattle Poisoning
  • 2. Investigating the Stereotype: Chamar Peasants and Agricultural Labourers
  • 3. Is the Leather Industry a Chamar Enterprise? The Making of Leather Workers
  • 4. Struggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics
  • 5. From Chamars to Dalits: The Making of an Achhut Identity and Politics in Uttar Pradesh
  • Conclusion Overcoming Domination: The Emergence of a New Achhut

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書名 Reconsidering untouchability : Chamars and Dalit history in North India
著作者等 Rawat, Ramnarayan S.
Rawat Ramnarayan
シリーズ名 Contemporary Indian studies
出版元 Indiana University Press
刊行年月 c2011
ページ数 xix, 272 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780253222626
NCID BB09840679
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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