Among the Brahmins and Pariahs

Among the Brahmins and Pariahs
Title Among the Brahmins and Pariahs PDF eBook
Author Johannes A. Sauter
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Pages 248
Release 1986
Genre India
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Brahmins and Pariahs

Brahmins and Pariahs
Title Brahmins and Pariahs PDF eBook
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Pages 222
Release 1861
Genre Bengal (India)
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Pariah & Brahmin

Pariah & Brahmin
Title Pariah & Brahmin PDF eBook
Author Austin Philips
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Pages 360
Release 1914
Genre Civil service
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The Pariah Problem

The Pariah Problem
Title The Pariah Problem PDF eBook
Author Rupa Viswanath
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 417
Release 2014-07-08
Genre History
ISBN 0231537506

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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.

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies
Title Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies PDF eBook
Author Jean Antoine Dubois
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Pages 782
Release 1906
Genre Hinduism
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For 30 years the author, a French missionary, lived among the Hindus, adopting their dress and customs and studying their social and religious institutions. The English government found this account of the results of his observations valuable enough to translate and publish it for the use of officials and oriental students.

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères

Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères
Title Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères PDF eBook
Author Binita Mehta
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 294
Release 2002
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780838754559

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This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.

The Calcutta Review

The Calcutta Review
Title The Calcutta Review PDF eBook
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Pages 628
Release 1846
Genre India
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