Author : Srinivasa Ramanujam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000113600
Renunciation and Untouchability in India by Srinivasa Ramanujam Pdf
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.