Why all the Fuss about Purity?: Un/Touch-ability and the Paradox of Hygienic Bodies
Focusing on the question of untouchability and how a discourse of hygiene comes to justify it in the recent times, the paper attempts a brief genealogy tracing the linking of caste and the concept of hygiene. Trying to open up the entanglements that enable such linking, the paper goes deeper into th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ratnabali Publisher
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry |
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| Online Access: | http://sanglap-journal.in.cp-in-6.webhostbox.net/index.php/sanglap/article/view/147 |