عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
TL48117
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Recognition and its Shadows: Dalits and the Politics of Religion in India
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Joel Lee
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Daniel, E. Valentine
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Columbia University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
320
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-54898-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Anthropology
Body granting the degree
Columbia University
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In its Constitution, postcolonial India acknowledges the caste-based practice of 'untouchability' as a social and historical wrong, and seeks to redress the effects of this wrong through compensatory discrimination. Dalits are recognized by the state as having suffered the effects of untouchability, and thus as eligible for statutory protections and remedial measures, on the condition that they profess no religion 'different from the Hindu religion' (a condition later expanded to include Sikhism and Buddhism as well). The present work charts the career of the idea underlying this condition of recognition - the idea that the 'untouchable,' insofar as she has not converted to Islam, Christianity, or another 'world religion,' must be Hindu - and its consequences, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Historically and ethnographically grounded in the community life of the sanitation labor castes - those Dalits castes that perform the vast majority of South Asia's sanitation work - in the north Indian city of Lucknow, the study tracks the idea from its ruptive colonial beginnings to its propagation by Hindu nationalists, induction into mainstream nationalism and installation in the edifice of postcolonial law. This is also an account of the everyday effects of postcolonial India's regime of recognition in the present: what it confers, what it transforms, what hides in its shadows.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Cultural anthropology; South Asian Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Anthropology of the senses;Caste;Dalits;Religious identity;Sanitation labor;South asia
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Wells, Jacoba
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Daniel, E. Valentine
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Subdivision
Anthropology
Columbia University
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
1656169554; 3681887
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[Thesis]
276903
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