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