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Reflections on the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa’s Uttarārdha
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2017 This paper provides a brief review of Gajanan Shastri Gaitonde’s corrected edition of J. Gerson Da Cunha’s 1877 text for the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa. It covers the import of O’Hanlon (2013) on the dating of various sections of the Sahyādrikhaṇḍa’s uttarārdha and ...
Stephan Hillyer Levitt
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Touch thee not: Group conflict, caste power and untouchability in rural India
Journal of comparative economics (Print), 2020 We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability - the avoidance of physical contact – by upper and backward caste Hindus vis-a-vis ‘scheduled’ castes (SCs) in rural India.
I. Dasgupta, S. Pal
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In Search of a Touchable Body: Christian Mission and Dalit Conversions
Religions, 2019 This paper significantly wishes to unpack the social and cultural impact of the mass religious conversion movements in Rayalaseema society with specific reference to Dalits during the period 1850 to 1880. This paper will use the archival material such as
Chakali Chandra Sekhar
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Caste, 2022 The notions of ritual purity and pollution hierarchically grades people according to their castes, and this hierarchy is socially expressed in terms of unequal rights to space, and the idea of ‘untouchability’ is socially realized either in terms of a ...
C. Jerome Samraj
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Bhimrao R. Ambedkar: a New Dalit Consciousness
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2014 This article is a survey of the life and legacy of Bhimrao Ambedkar, the most influential politician of the 20th century in the struggle for the emancipation of the Untouchables of India.
Agustín Pániker
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La déesse intouchable : une Vierge andalouse
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2010 If “touching the object transcends” as proposed in the statement of the problem, an object’s transcendence will more often than not stem from its untouchability. It is in the light of this hypothesis of “touching by default” that we examine the adoration
Antoinette Molinié
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Religions, 2023 This paper seeks to analyze the recent phenomenon of the development of a Matri Sena (literally, an ‘Army of Holy Women’) among the Matua sect of West Bengal, India.
Sukanya Sarbadhikary, Dishani Roy
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Towards Elimination of Stigma & Untouchability: A Case for Leprosy.
Indian J Med Res, 2019 © 2019 Indian Journal of Medical Research, published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow for Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research “Gandhibhai, do not come near us, we are lepers,” cried a group of people, being approached by Gandhiji on seeing that
Patil S +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Due to the untouchability of online shopping environment, image and text description, as two main ways of product information display, are important indicators for consumers to evaluate products.
Zan Huang +4 more
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Sex as a Weapon to Settle Scores against Dalits: An Quotidian Phenomenon
Caste, 2020 In the Indian context, caste controls the gender norms as women are producers of the notion of ‘caste purity’. Historically, the violation of caste codes including those related to women have been subjected to punishment through the instrument of social ...
Jyoti Diwakar
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