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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 01 October 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822394679-092
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9467-9
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... Dalit Sikhs Dalit history Sikhism Brahmanization untouchability ...
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By Peter van der Veer
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... Indian middle class India-China slavery untouchability Dalit ...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... Growing out of a powerful anti-Brahmanical heterodox tradition in northern India in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Sikh sect of Guru Nanak and his successors gradually evolved into an organized religious movement in Punjab. It became a rallying point for untouchables and members...
Published: 30 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027195-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5
... a conjunction of sexuality and economics untouched. sexuality transgression migration ...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
...” and argues that these theories ignore the importance of caste and especially untouchability. It further argues that one cannot expect the poor themselves to improve their condition through participatory development, considering their internal fragmentation and the conditions of slavery under which many...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... successors gradually evolved into an organized religious movement in Punjab. It became a rallying point for untouchables and members of low castes to use in regaining their lost respect and dignity. The crucial role of untouchable communities in the success of the Sikh experiment is largely absent...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... to their close proximity to the poor. It examines some cultural theories of attitudes toward “the dirty outside world” and argues that these theories ignore the importance of caste and especially untouchability. It further argues that one cannot expect the poor themselves to improve their condition through...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... that over the years they have become a religious community, not just an untouchable caste. Even though they continue to be listed among the officially recognized Hindu scheduled castes of Punjab (as Chamars, Ad Dharmis, or Ravi Dasis) and are often recognized as such by others, they have carved out a sense...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 29 August 2022
DOI: 10.1215/9781478022978-066
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2297-8
....” Meanwhile, age-old problems such as racial and ethnic discrimination festered, seemingly untouched by new, progressive attitudes. Import Substitution Industrialization ISI agrarian reform urban slums official corruption ...
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5
... domination and paranoia, leaving a conjunction of sexuality and economics untouched. sexuality transgression migration Advancing a historical analysis of race, immigration, and disability, Natalia Molina offers an examination of how public health and immigration discourses defined Mexican...
Published: 29 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... community, not just an untouchable caste. Even though they continue to be listed among the officially recognized Hindu scheduled castes of Punjab (as Chamars, Ad Dharmis, or Ravi Dasis) and are often recognized as such by others, they have carved out a sense of religious identity for themselves. Despite its...