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The colonial carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of poppies [PDF]

, 2016
Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, this article argues that the novels Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand and Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh represent the destabilization of traditional, pre-colonial hierarchies, especially those of caste, by employing ...
Thiara, N
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B.R. Ambedkar, Partition and the Internationalisation of Untouchability, 1939–47

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2019
This article analyses the way in which B.R. Ambedkar attempted to internationalise the problem of untouchability in the years prior to Partition. The move towards the international was an attempt to secure a political space for Dalits as a consequence of
Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism

Leiden Journal of International Law
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Rishabh Bajoria
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Service & non-profit marketing [PDF]

Marketing (Beograd. 1991), 2002
Services are dominantly untouchable products which cannot be physically owned. Services promotion is difficult for its untouchables. Personal sale is very powerful in service companies because customers must interact with employees.
Stanković Čedomir
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Subject, text, nation: Situating narrative fiction in nationalism studies [PDF]

, 2010
For the abstract, please see the PDF ...
Mondal, A
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Purifying the nation : the Arya Samaj in Gujarat 1895-1930 [PDF]

, 2007
This article examines the impact of the Arya Samaj in Gujarat from 1895 to 1930. Although the founder of this body, Dayanand Saraswati, was from Gujarat, it proved less popular there initially than in the Punjab.
Hardiman, David
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Internal Deportation

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’. ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’.
Ayushman Bhagat
wiley   +1 more source

The Spectre of Superbugs: Waste, Structural Violence and Antimicrobial Resistance in India

Worldwide Waste, 2019
At first glance there may seem to be no clear connections between two of humanity’s most pressing problems: environmental waste and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Assa Doron, Alex Broom
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Untouchable India [PDF]

Index on Censorship, 2006
INDIA’S BRUTAL CASTE SYSTEM IS A STAIN ON THE NATION AND RESISTANCE IS MET WITH SAVAGE REPRISALS
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