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Journal articles on the topic "Untouchability"

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Pinto, Sarah. "Globalizing Untouchability." Social Text 24, no. 1 (2006): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01642472-24-1_86-81.

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Khaista Rahman and Muhammad Akram. "UNTOUCHABILITY AMONG MUSLIMS?" ĪQĀN 5, no. 1 (December 30, 2022): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.36755/iqan.v5i1.410.

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Islam is known for its egalitarian teachings and unequivocal rejection of discrimination based on color, race, and ethnicity. However, as is the case with many other religious traditions, the disparity between the teachings of Islam and the practice of different Muslim communities cannot be ruled out. In South Asia, the problem of untouchability is attributed to the Hindu caste system, with its roots in ancient Brahmanism. However, some scholars have opined that parallel social stratification exists among Muslim societies of the region, too, like labeling some ethnic Christians as Chuhra and considering them as untouchables. This paper is based on data collected during a study on Christian-Muslim social interaction in Peshawar city, as some items in the quantitative questionnaire and field observations related to the issue of untouchability and hatred. The paper makes use of these items to check the validity of the claims of untouchability among Muslims. The notion of untouchability, i.e., certain social groups are impure and polluting, is generally associated with the Hindu religious tradition. However, a few studies maintain that upper-class Muslims, too, observe it in some parts of South Asia. Against this background, the present paper investigates the validity of these claims as regards the practice of untouchability among Muslims towards Christians based on data collected during a field study on Christian-Muslim social interaction in Peshawar, Pakistan. The method combined a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews.According to the study, 65.2% of Christians disagreed with the statement that Muslims consider them untouchables. Similarly, the majority (61.8%) of Christians insisted that they were never hated, while the majority (95.9%) of Muslims also rejected the claim that they hated Christians. The downside of these findings is that around one-third of Christians view that they are treated as untouchable by their Muslim compatriots. Results from the interviews also corroborated these quantifications. The paper concludes that although the Islamic teachings do not support the idea of untouchability towards human beings of any fold or affiliation, some Muslims in Pakistan still practice it towards a particular Christian ethnicity (ch?hr?s), considering them sanitary workers. The stigma attached to this Christain community is primarily because of their occupation rather than confession. Associating any ethnic or religious group with unclean professions and then considering them untouchable is a social evil that needs to be eradicated.

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Jangir, Hemraj P. "Untouchability in Rural India." Rural Society 30, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2021.1891728.

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Sooryamoorthy, Radhamany. "Untouchability in Modern India." International Sociology 23, no. 2 (March 2008): 283–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580907086382.

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Davies, Jon. "Untouchability in Rural India." Community Development Journal 42, no. 2 (April 1, 2007): 274–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsm005.

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Kafle, Dol Raj. "A History of Untouchability in Nepal." Voice of History 31, no. 1 (April 20, 2023): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/voh.v31i1.53790.

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This study tries to explore how the practice of untouchability developed in the ancient Indian Aryan society and over time entered Nepal and gradually took root in Nepali society. This study presents an argument based on historical facts that the practice of untouchability originated in the Indian Aryan society under the practice of some of the elites who had been in powerful positions. The practice was mainly instituted by the elites to continue exercising their power to subjugate the powerless. As the same, elite Aryans started migrating to Nepal during the ancient period, they brought with them the same practice to continue exercising self-acquired power within the Nepali society. But there was no strongly practiced untouchability in ancient Nepali society. The practice was slowly instituted with the adoption of associated rituals and traditions. The main objective of this study is to explore and analyze untouchability from a historical perspective. The custom of untouchability has existed in Nepal for centuries, there is limited historical evidence of any efforts to abolish it during the ancient and medieval periods. This study combines a qualitative research approach and a historical framework to explore the connection between a social norm and its history.

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Gurung, Ganga B. "Understanding the Dichotomy of Auspicious and Untouchability: An Ethnographic Study of Damai Musicians of Nepal." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 10, no. 2 (July 25, 2018): 138–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x18785453.

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In Nepal, just as in major parts of India and some other South Asian countries, the issue of untouchability still prevails. People even now face unjust discrimination on the basis of caste. They are prohibited from visiting public places such as temples and water taps. In this article, I have investigated the dichotomy of auspiciousness and untouchability faced by the Pariyars, one of the downtrodden caste groups of Nepal, also known as Damai. The music they create, compose and play is famous throughout the country which is popularly known as the Panchai Baja and Naumati Baja and is taken as auspicious. I adopted ethnographic research methods to obtain the qualitative data through in-depth interviews, participant observations and field notes from 21 research participants who were actively engaged in music. I have analysed the social relations and cultural identity in reference to auspicious music and untouchability faced by the Damai musicians of Nepal. The findings indicate that untouchability is an outcome of cultural hegemony, caste-based hierarchy and socio-economic order, fatalism and cultural reproduction despite modernity and social and political awareness among young people. This ethnographic study throws light upon the dichotomy of auspicious and untouchability through the lived experiences of the research participants.

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Bros, Catherine, and Mathieu Couttenier. "Untouchability, homicides and water access." Journal of Comparative Economics 43, no. 3 (August 2015): 549–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2014.12.001.

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Yadav, Shiv Kumar. "Dalits in the Past and Present: Experiences of Chamars from Nepal Tarai." Patan Pragya 12, no. 02 (December 31, 2023): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pragya.v12i02.64205.

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This paper is about the caste system, status of one of the Dalit community (Chamar) and the change taking place in such community over the period of time. Caste system is the division of people based on occupational diversity which is unique feature of Hindu society. According Hindu varna system, society is hierarchically divided as Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra. In this hierarchy, Dalits were kept at the bottom with duty as labourers and service providers. Belonging to Shudra varna they were discriminated in the name of so called untouchable caste. The results of untouchability were manifested in various areas of social practice including work and wage. It made Dalits to at the margin of the society. Later on the provision of punishment if any case of untouchability was found in practice was made. Even after the implementation of legal provision that considers discriminatory or untouchable practices against Dalits as illegal activities there is still the practice of untouchability. Till the date most of Dalits including Chamars in Tarai are engaged in age-old traditional occupation or manual works. Based on the previous literatures and few narratives collected through interviews this paper argues that the status of Chamar, one of the Dalit communities of Tarai was facing various problems including untouchability in the past and even today they are experiencing problems of various kinds including untouchability. However, social and cultural movement of Dalits in eastern Tarai of Nepal is a struggle for changing status of Dalits including Chamars.

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Shah, A. M. "Purity, Impurity, Untouchability: Then and Now." Sociological Bulletin 56, no. 3 (September 2007): 99–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038022920070302.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Untouchability"

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Roy, Jadab. "Socio philosophical understanding of untouchability: past and present." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2695.

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Cháirez-Garza, Jesús Francisco. "Nationalizing untouchability : the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, ca. 1917-1956." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708576.

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Kumbher, Kamran. "Practising Hindusim in the Islamic Repulblic of Pakistan : devotion and the politics of untouchability in Ramdev Pir's tradition of Sindh." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0043.

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Cette étude est une tentative de comprendre le processus par lequel une secte religieuse mineure s'est installée dans une nouvelle région au passé historique complexe et comment elle s'est transformée par la suite en organisation politique. Dans ma thèse, je me concentre sur la transformation d'un panth hindou dans le Sindh depuis son arrivée au 19ème siècle pendant la colonisation britannique des régions transfrontalières voisines du Rajasthan et du Gujarat, jusqu'à leur transformation en un mouvement politique. Les membres ont commencé à s'organiser en tant que communauté religieuse autour d'un site religieux principal situé dans le Tando Allahyar et, plus tard, ils ont été confrontés à des scissions qui ont provoqué l'émergence de multiples sites, justifiées par leurs différences linguistiques, régionales et la guerre de 1971 entre les Indiens et les Pakistanais. Il est important de préciser ici que cette communauté a été classée dès l'époque britannique comme Intouchables, pour parler franchement, bien que différentes dénominations lui aient été données, comme les castes répertoriées, classification qui est toujours utilisée par l'administration pakistanaise. L’épisode de rupture au sein de la communauté a restructuré et réorganisé le panth, puisqu'il a entraîné l'apparition de différents modèles de changements dans la même Panth en raison de leurs différents sites et groupes. En outre, ils sont devenus moins connectés qu'auparavant mais, fait intéressant, le site central est resté important et c'est pourquoi la partie principale de cette étude lui est consacrée. Et après la guerre, l'allégation et la relation de méfiance à l'égard des hindous en général ont conduit un groupe de la communauté à se solidifier politiquement avec une nouvelle identité politique en raison de leur nombre dominant et de leur frontière commune avec l'Inde. Cela s'est fait par la circulation de la littérature de dévotion d'abord, en enregistrant la nostalgie de leurs anciennes régions et l'importance du culte du sauveur et du héros. La majeure partie de la littérature dévotionnelle a été produite en 1990, suivie plus tard par la production de la littérature politique. Elle a contribué à l'établissement d'un mouvement dalit dans une ville. Il est vraiment intéressant de noter qu'en 1980, le mouvement et la littérature dalits ont été produits dans l'état indien du Gujarat et plus tard, ils ont été suivis par le Sind au Pakistan, bien que la politique au Gujarat ne soit pas discutée de façon majeure dans la présente étude. Cette politique identitaire a réagi différemment en raison de l'emplacement de leur nouveau site religieux multiple, de leur nombre dans la population et de leurs propres différences au sein de la Panth. Toute la thèse est conclue sur la façon dont un Panth hindou a changé et transformé sa politique hindoue dans un État islamique
This study is an attempt to understand the process through which a minor religious sect settled in a new region with an intricate historical past and transform later in to a political organization. In my thesis, I focus on the transformation of a Hindu panth in Sindh from its arrival in the 19th century during British colonization from the neighboring cross border regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat, to their transformation into a political movement. The members started to organize themselves as a religious community around a main religious site located in Tando Allahyar and later on, it faced splits which caused the emergence of multiple sites, justified by their linguistic, regional differences and Indo Pak war of 1971. It is important to state here this community was classified from the British times as Untouchables, to speak frankly, althobreakuperent denominations were given to it, such as Scheduled castes, a classification which is still used by Pakistan administration.This breakup episode has re-structured and re-organized the panth, since it has led to the emergence of different patterns of changes in the same panth because of their different sites and groups. Furthermore, they got less connected as compared to before but interestingly, the central site remained impo, in general,hat is why the main part of this study is devoted to it. And after the war, the allegation and relationship of mistrust on Hindus in general led a group among the communitythe to solidify politically with new political identity because of their dominant number and shared border with India. It has been done through circulation of devotional literature first, recording the longingness for their old regions and the importance of savior and hero worship. Most of the devotional literature was produced in 1990 which later was followed by producing the and literatureerature. It contributed to establish a Dalit movement in one city. It is really interesting that in the 1980, the Dalit movement and literature was prothe duced in the Indian state of Gujarat and later it was followed by Sindh in Pakistan though the politics in Gujarat is not majorly discussed in present study. This Identity politics have responded differently because of the location of their new religious multiple sites, their number in the population and their own differences within the panth. The whole thesis is concluded that how a Hindu Panth changed and transformed their Hindu politics in an Islamic state

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Sarwate, Rahul Shirish. "Reimagining the Modern Hindu Self: Caste, Untouchability and Hindu Theology in Colonial South Asia, 1899-1948." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-pnty-2860.

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My dissertation project, ‘Reimagining the Modern Hindu Self: Caste, Untouchability and Hindu Theology in Colonial South Asia, 1899-1948’ examines the interrelationship between modern forms of Hinduness and the narratives of Progressivism in the context of Maharashtra, a region in Western India. I present a thick description of the complex social world of Marathi intellectuals and cultural actors of the early twentieth century through various discursive/philosophical writings, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, personal correspondence, biographies, as well as a wide range of literary corpus of novels, plays and literary criticism in Marathi. My project hopes to demonstrate that a deeper engagement with the vernacular discourses would be enriching and productive for South Asian intellectual history. My methodology involved an exploration of the dialogic and transformational relationships between the centre and the peripheries of ‘Hinduness’ across disparate sites of discursive productions like non-Brahmin print publics, theological debates and literary culture. Through an examination of the ways in which the various peripheries of Hinduness – like Untouchables, the non-Brahmin, the non-Hindu and the women – had transformed the ideas of what constituted the core of modern Hinduness, I argue that the various narratives of Maharashtra’s progressivism and a complex phenomenon of modern Hinduness were deeply implicated in the production of each other in the first half of the twentieth century. My project identifies untouchables, women, anti-caste intellectuals, toilet cleaners, translators of Sanskrit texts and people who fasted unto death as crucial actors in this reimagination of modern Hindu self. Also, by providing a regionally specific history of Hindu ethic, my project challenges the Pan-Indian narrative of universal Hinduism that is privileged in the historiography of South Asia and enables me to argue that the ethical value of Hinduness was inherently political and the universal idea of Hinduness did not emerge through a singular genealogy. It is in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, that the contradiction between the ethical and political aspects of Hinduness became significant. My project is to write a long and complex history of this imperative moment that coincided with the dawn of independent India.

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Emsden, Christopher. "Colonial mutations of caste in Tamil Nadu : an essay on space and untouchability, with special reference to Madurai district, c.1500-1990." Master's thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/123775.

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After the lengthy war of conquest, the British installed the Permanent Settlement on much of the dry zone of south India. This was part of an original pacification plan designed to be temporary; however, colonial interests later decided that it was politically convenient to maintain some of the "native rank" in the country. These zamindari estates became precisely the area where caste-inducing pseudo-jajmani systems enjoyed a colonized efflorescence. These changes occurred in the nineteenth century; not all of the peculiar traditions of the south Indian social world pre-date the colonial kali yuga.

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Books on the topic "Untouchability"

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Rāju, Karama Siṅgha. Untouchability affire. Chandigarh: Ratna Memorial Charitable Trust, 1997.

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Origin of untouchability. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp., 2012.

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Untouchability and its origin. Nagpur: Yugantar Education Society, 1999.

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Untouchability in rural India. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2006.

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Ramesh, Chandra. Untouchability and the law. New Delhi: Commonwealth, 2003.

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Rāghavulu, Bi Vi. Forms and manifestations of untouchability. New Delhi: Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2007.

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Paliwal, K. V. Untouchability alien to Hindu Dharma. New Delhi: Hindu Writers Forum, 2005.

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Concept of untouchability in Dharmashastra. Delhi: New Bharatiya Book Corp., 2008.

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Crime related to untouchability in Nepal. Kathmandu: Pairavi Prakashan, 2010.

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1942-, Kotani Hiroyuki, ed. Caste system, untouchability, and the depressed. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Untouchability"

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Jal, Murzban. "Epistemological Untouchability." In Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate, 188–239. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003155065-8.

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Shah, A. M. "Purity, Impurity, Untouchability." In The Structure of Indian Society, 44–56. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429401268-3.

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Deliège, Robert. "Caste, Class, and Untouchability." In A Companion to the Anthropology of India, 45–61. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444390599.ch2.

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Shah, A. M. "Untouchability, The Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat*." In The Structure of Indian Society, 164–75. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge India, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429401268-10.

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Geetha, V. "Graded Inequality and Untouchability: Towards the Annihilation of Caste." In Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India, 147–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80375-9_5.

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Cháirez-Garza, Jesús F. "Moving untouched: B. R. Ambedkar and the racialization of untouchability." In Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization, 24–42. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003319726-2.

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Vigo, Laura, and Lindsay Corbett. "根付 Netsuke Hands on Subverting Untouchability Through the Digital." In Beyond Digital Representation, 1–12. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36155-5_1.

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Prasad, Indulata. "Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India." In Sociology of South Asia, 293–322. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7_11.

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Mundayur, Neelima, Juhi Jotwani, and Shubda Arora. "Figure of the Domestic Worker in “Maid in Heaven”: Study of Digital Untouchability in Contemporary Media." In The Digital Popular in India, 105–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39435-5_6.

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Guru, Gopal. "Archaeology of Untouchability1." In Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate, 114–32. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003155065-4.

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