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The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 155.00Written by an internationally recognized specialist on Buraku studies, this book casts new light on majority-minority relations and the struggle for Buraku liberation. Ian Neary focuses on the Burakumin activist, left-wing politician, family company manager and arguably the most important Buraku leader of the twentieth century: Matsumoto Jiichiro.... more...
The Structure of Indian Society
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 120.00This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982?2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based... more...
Dalits in India
SAGE India 2009; US$ 39.95Dalits in India: Search for Common Destiny explores the status of Dalits in the. country by presenting all-India and state-level analyses of various human development. and related social and economic indicators. It provides a comprehensive understanding. of the processes and dynamics that exclude them from mainstream development and. are causative... more...
Caste, Culture and Hegemony
SAGE India 2004; US$ 24.95It is widely believed that, because of its exceptional social development, the caste system in colonial Bengal differed considerably from the rest of India. Through a study of the complex interplay between caste, culture and power, this book convincingly demonstrates that Bengali Hindu society preserved the essentials of caste discrimination in colonial... more...
Caste Wars
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 155.00The central topic for this book is the ethics of treating individuals as though they are members of groups. The book raises many interesting questions, including: Why do we feel so much more strongly about discrimination on certain grounds ? e.g. of race and sex - than discrimination on other grounds? Are we right to think that discrimination... more...
Untouchable Citizens
SAGE India 2004; US$ 78.95This book, the fourth in the series Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge , examines the mode of organisation and engagement in politics of the Dalits in Tamil Nadu, and their contribution to the processes of democratisation and egalitarianism. Situating the Dalit movement in the context of socio-political changes in Tamil Nadu, the book covers... more...
Caste in Question
SAGE India 2004; US$ 64.95This important volume provides an alternative perspective on caste. It demonstrates that the traditional view of casteas a single hierarchy, with Brahmins at the top and the untouchable castes at the bottomis no longer valid. From politics to gender to economic interaction, the contributors reveal how the erstwhile single, pure hierarchical... more...
Fascinating Hindutva
SAGE India 2009; US$ 19.95In the present socio-political scenario of India, Dalits have emerged as a major. force in the electoral arena and politically mobilising them has almost become. a compulsion for all political parties. Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation is a deconstruction. of the fascinating tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically... more...
The Caste Question
University of California Press 2009; US$ 29.95This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial... more...
Dalits in Modern India
SAGE India 2007; US$ 32.95This second, revised and enlarged edition looks back at the aspirations and struggle. of the marginalised Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on. equality, social justice and human dignity. Within the context of Dalit emancipation,. it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation. in modern India. These... more...









