Ramanujam, Srinivasa

Renunciation and untouchability in India: the notional and the empirical in the caste order - South Asia Edition - London: Routledge, 2020 - xiii; 172p. hb; 20 cm

This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of Brahmin' and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new framework of understanding relationships between social groups and social categories. An important intervention in the study of caste and untouchability, this book will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.



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Caste
India
History
Political Science
Social Science

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