The Pariah Problem : : Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India / / Rupa Viswanath.
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the c...
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Viswanath, Rupa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Pariah Problem : Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India / Rupa Viswanath. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (416 p.) : ‹B›Maps: ‹/B›1. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cultures of History Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface on Terminology -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Land Tenure or Labor Control?: The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury -- Chapter 3. The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State -- Chapter 4. The State and the Cēri -- Chapter 5. Settling Land, Sowing Conflict; or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality -- Chapter 6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission-State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity -- Chapter 7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating "a Friction Where None Exists" -- Chapter 8. Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public -- Chapter 9. The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social -- Conclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- ARCHIVAL SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"-with consequences that continue to be felt today.Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Caste India History. Pariahs History. Pariahs Social conditions. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665864 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 print 9780231163064 https://doi.org/10.7312/visw16306 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231537506 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231537506/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface on Terminology -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Land Tenure or Labor Control?: The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury -- Chapter 3. The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State -- Chapter 4. The State and the Cēri -- Chapter 5. Settling Land, Sowing Conflict; or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality -- Chapter 6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission-State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity -- Chapter 7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating "a Friction Where None Exists" -- Chapter 8. Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public -- Chapter 9. The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social -- Conclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies -- GLOSSARY -- NOTES -- ARCHIVAL SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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