Mendelsohn, Oliver,

The untouchables : subordination, poverty, and the state in modern India / Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. - xviii, 289 páginas - Contemporary South Asia ; 4 . - Contemporary South Asia ; 4. .

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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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