Author: Kalinga Tudor SilvaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789556591552
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Casteless Or Caste-blind?
Author: Kalinga Tudor SilvaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789556591552
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Dalits of Sri Lanka: Caste-blind Does Not Mean Casteless
Author: International Dalit Solidarity NetworkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Broken People
Author: Smita NarulaPublisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Women and the Law.
COMING OUT AS DALIT.
Author: Yashica DuttPublisher:
ISBN: 9789388292405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Caste, Class and Social Inequality in India
Author: G. L. SharmaCastes and Tribes of Southern India
Author: Edgar ThurstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Caste of Merit
Author: Ajantha SubramanianPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424348X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste
Author: Toral Jatin GajarawalaPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823245241
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Untouchable Fictions considers the crisis of literary realism--progressive, rural, regionalist, experimental--in order to derive a literary genealogy for the recent explosion of Dalit ("untouchable caste") fiction. Drawing on a wide array of writings from Premchand and Renu in Hindi to Mulk Raj Anand and V. S. Naipaul in English, Gajarawala illuminates the dark side of realist complicity: a hidden aesthetics and politics of caste. How does caste color the novel? What are its formal tendencies? What generic constraints does it produce?
Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Author: Daniel BassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415526248
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka's violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian) Tamils generally have tried to secure their vision of living within a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka, not within Tamil Eelam, the separatist dream that ended with the civil war in 2009. Exploring Sri Lanka within the deep history of colonial-era South Asian plantation diasporas, the book argues Up-country Tamils form a "diaspora next-door" to their ancestral homeland. It moves beyond simplistic Sinhala-Tamil binaries and shows how Sri Lanka's ethnic troubles actually have more in common with similar battles that diasporic Indians have faced in Fiji and Trinidad than with Hindu-Muslim communalism in neighbouring India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Shedding new light on issues of agency, citizenship, displacement and re-placement within the formation of diasporic communities and identities, this book demonstrates the ways that culture workers, including politicians, trade union leaders, academics and NGO workers, have facilitated the development of a new identity as Up-country Tamil. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of modern South Asia, diaspora, violence, post-conflict nations, religion and ethnicity.
Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability
Author: W. B. Vasantha KandasamyPublisher: Infinite Study
ISBN: 1931233004
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
For the first time, the social problem of untouchability, which is peculiar to India, is being studied mathematically.We have used Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps to analyze the views of the revolutionary Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (17.09.1879 24.12.1973) who relentlessly worked for more than five decades to secure the rights of the oppressed people who were considered untouchables. This thought-provoking book will be of great interest to human rights activists, socio-scientists, historians, and above all, mathematicians.From UNESCO citation: Periyar, The Prophet of the New Age, The Socrates of South East Asia, Father of the Social reform Movement and Arch Enemy of Ignorance, Superstition, Meaningless Customs and Baseless Manners.