Автор: Newbigin Название: The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India ISBN: 1107037832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107037830 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tracing the historical roots of India`s transition to independence, Newbigin`s highly original study explores the role of economy, gender and religion in the development of representative politics in twentieth-century India. This book will stimulate debate across disciplines, particularly among scholars considering law, gender and economy in colonial and post-colonial societies.
Автор: Jeffrey Craig, Harriss John Название: Keywords for Modern India ISBN: 019966563X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199665631 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Keywords for Modern India provides a powerful introduction to modern India`s culture, politics and society, through an exploration of the English language vocabulary that is used in writing in and about a country that is becoming ever more in need of understanding as it becomes increasingly significant in world affairs.
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"--with consequences that continue to be felt today.
Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination.
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