Recognition and its Shadows: Dalits and the Politics of Religion in India

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 untou...

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Main Author: Lee, Joel
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T43RWR