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... Dalit Sikhs Dalit history Sikhism Brahmanization untouchability ...

... Indian middle class India-China slavery untouchability Dalit ...

... 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...

... a conjunction of sexuality and economics untouched. sexuality transgression migration ...

...” 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... problems such as racial and ethnic discrimination festered, seemingly untouched by new, progressive attitudes. The Perils of Modernity Import Substitution Industrialization ISI agrarian reform urban slums official corruption ...

... a conjunction of sexuality and economics untouched. Advancing a historical analysis of race, immigration, and disability, Natalia Molina offers an examination of how public health and immigration discourses defined Mexican immigrants as culturally or physically unfit for citizenship. Eithne...

... 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...