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Maadathy-An Unfairy Tale: Caste, Space, and Gaze

open access: yesCaste, 2022
This essay engages with Maadathy (dir. Leena Manimekalai, 2019) to explore how space is constructed as a marker of caste and interrogate the concomitant intersection of caste and gender in a divided community.
Swarnavel Eswaran
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Unpacking caste politics through the multimodal communicative landscape of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

open access: yes, 2020
Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability by Srividya Natarajan and S.Anand reveals the bitter truth of casteism as prevalent in Indian society. Through the use of graphic novel format and reviving the traditional Gond art form, the text not only ...
Suryendu Chakraborty
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MORE ON THE EVANGELICAL SENSE OF THE PARABLE “FISH SOUP” BY I. A. GONCHAROV [PDF]

open access: yesПроблемы исторической поэтики, 2017
The article deals with the parable-short story of I. A. Goncharov “Fish Soup” (“Uha”), written presumably in July-August of 1891. It is aimed at altering the predominating opinion about the writer’s final literary work as a local Simbirsk joke about ...
Vladimir I. Mel’nik
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The Brahmanisation of Indian Sociology or the Birth of the Racial Theories of Untouchability

open access: yesSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
This article shows how untouchability was framed as an ethnographic problem largely through a racial and Brahmanical perspective by looking at some of the main interventions made by British and Indian social scientists on this topic, such as H.H. Risley,
Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
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Manual Scavenging and the Issue of Untouchability in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

open access: yes, 2020
Untouchability is an evil social menace, where certain group of people are discriminated or alienated based on their caste, class or job from the mainstream sections of the society.
P. Gopika Unni
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Witch Hunting: A Form of violence against Dalit Women in India

open access: yesCaste, 2020
The Caste system is a social reality in India; despite constitutional rights of equality, protection from discrimination, and the ban on untouchability, discrimination against Dalit communities or Schedule Castes, still persists. Outside and within their
Tanvi Yadav
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Tending Immanence, Transcending Sectarianism: Plane of Mixed Castes and Religions

open access: yesCaste, 2021
The attempt in this article is to extrapolate the notion of hybridity latent in B. R. Ambedkar’s reflections on mixed castes, and outcastes, which subsequently leads to the causal link that he then derives gesticulating to social evils, namely, the ...
Roshni Babu
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Is There Still Untouchability in India? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Untouchability has always been a key problem of Indian anthropology; but like many other issues, it has been treated as an abstract concept that existed outside time.
Deliège, Robert
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(Re-)Defining Disadvantage: Untouchability, Criminality and ‘Tribe’ in India, c. 1910s–1950s

open access: yes, 2020
In contemporary India, the arena of identity politics and ‘reservations’ is highly contentious, with groups clamouring for official recognition within the categories of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class.
Sarah Gandee
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Navigating Workplace Bullying: A Critical Theory Exploration of Lecturers' Experiences in a Higher Education Context

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

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