This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar's role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem.
Ambedkar's main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understood untouchability beyond aspects of ritual purity and pollution by stressing its complex nature and uncovering the political, historical, racial, spatial and emotional characteristics contained in this concept. Ambedkar believed the abolition of untouchability depended on a widespread alteration of India's political, economic and cultural systems. Ambedkar reframed the problem of untouchability by linking it to larger concepts floating in the political environment of late colonial India such as representation, slavery, race, the Indian village, internationalism and even the creation of Pakistan.
By:
Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza Imprint: Manchester University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN:9781526168726 ISBN 10: 1526168723 Series:Racism, Resistance and Social Change Pages: 256 Publication Date:01 April 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Jess F. Chirez Garza is Lecturer of the History of Race and Ethnicity at the University of Manchester
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