...The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky (1938–1945). Dušan Deák and Rowenna Baldwin, Oxford University Press. © Dušan Deák and Rowenna Baldwin 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192889690.003.0010 Life in Bhopal; ‘mango ball’; discussion about Gandhi, Ambedkar, and untouchables; friendship...

... frameworks found in a habitat. valid reading principle of totality interlocutory engagement epistemic stance present and past interpretation Brahmanical texts Bhagavad-Gita Buddhist texts Shudras and Untouchables Ambedkar constantly made pronouncements on texts and traditions, particularly...

... as a site for cross-cultural encounters. It is interesting to note that other diasporic Asian literatures do not share this thematic emphasis, with the exception of South Asian texts that deal with the issue of caste and of the “untouchables” whose caste-prescribed duties include cleaning toilets. Mulk Raj...

... attention to the rights of children who are considered ‘untouchables’ or ‘outcastes.’ The chapter shows the challenges the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) confronts in addressing such discrimination. The chapter concludes by exploring ways the CRC Committee further the potential...

...Chapter 4 is occupied with the knowledge production within the Dalit movement in India and the Burakumin movement in Japan. It presents a historical overview of these protest movements during the 20th century. The Dalit movement among the so-called Untouchables is a protest movement against caste...

... for the untouchables allowed temple authorities to retain their exclusive access without being “polluted.” Quietly, Dalits began using temple roads; volunteers maintained a presence. The dubious settlement was the most controversial aspect of the entire struggle, which had consistently asked for all roads to be opened...

... the victims of racial discrimination. It stresses that the first step in addressing racism is to ascertain the fate of the victims, among them the ‘untouchables’ in India, indigenous populations, and the migrant workers excluded from their communities despite their significant economic contribution. The third...

... this picture by documenting how non-elites—including Untouchables and Muslims—appropriated shuddhi into their own ritual-political initiatives in ways that rendered shuddhi’s contribution to the upper-caste politics of Hindu unity uncertain. Questioning whether shuddhi...

..., the Kṣatriyas, and the Vaiśyas, the fourth underprivileged class, the Śūdras, and, at the bottom of the society, the lowest so-called untouchable castes. It also discusses the understanding of human differences that lies at the center of the system and the possible economic and political motivations...

... Caṇḍāla outcaste death house purification of a menstruation women internal impurity dakṣiṇā donations donations social anthropology and purification taboos impurity purification ritual body death birth menstruation Untouchables social anthropology The term impurity...

... (or untouchables) at the national level. While the reservation policy has been effective in gaining the scheduled castes access to employment in jobs from which they long had been excluded, the impact has been constrained by its limited application to employment in the civil service or public sector...

... from treating freedom as a mere word, he considered it as the power of having a dissident voice. He saw a direct link between conversion and social freedom of the Untouchables. Ambedkar was one of the most innovative and insightful political thinkers of the last century, but a thinker, unfortunately...

...This chapter analyzes the complexities of the 1987 film, The Untouchables, one of De Palma's biggest box-office hits. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, The Untouchables shows Treasury agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and his handpicked band of incorruptible men...

...This introduction offers a general outline of the book. It defines the concept of untouchability and the terms used in this work. The main events in Ambedkar’s life are highlighted to contextualise his life. This does not intend to be a full-fledged account of Ambedkar’s career. This short...

... town located near the birth-spring of the river Krishna about 90 km from Pune, you would have noticed that the domestic sta , all from the lower castes that were traditionally called Untouchables, was free to use the kitchen, eat from the same plates and drink from the same cups as Laxmanshastri...

...Murukapu l a is a modestly sized village in the south of Kerala which looks out onto the backwaters leading to the sea and has a huge Roman Catholic church for its large population of fishermen. The other two‐thirds of its population are a mixture of people in Untouchables castes and I l avas who...

... household, Untouchables were treated no differently than brahmins. Although the domestic staff essentially came from the Untouchable community, he and his wife, Satyavati, were sure to encourage their children to study and get formal college education. Throughout his life, he used his scholarship to focus...

...Figure 3.1 Gratuitous image and action: Suspiria (1977) Figure 3.2 Graphic violence: The Birds (1963) Figures 3.3–3.5 Muted action in the jump cut: The Birds (1963) Figures 3.7–3.8 A Sergio Leone zoom: The Untouchables...

... the justification for the study on the theme of employment discrimination and its impact on income and poverty of untouchables (Scheduled Caste), after closely reviewing the literature on the subject. This chapter identifies the issues for further analysis, and lays down the specific objectives of the study. per...

...Within a decade after the Vykom struggle in the princely state of Travancore concluded with a compromise of ambiguous meaning, accounts were published that established a narrative in which all the Vykom temple roads were opened to the so-called untouchables as a result of the upper castes...