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082 _a305.5 VIS
100 _aViswanath, R.
245 _aThe Pariah Problem:
_bCaste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
_cRupa Viswanath
250 _a20th - Anniversary ed.
260 _aNew Delhi
_bNavayana Publishing
_c2024
300 _axvii, 377 Pages
_c14 cm.
505 _aPREFACE ON TERMINOLOGY xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii ABBREVIATIONS xvii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Land Tenure or Labor Control? The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène 23 Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury 40 Chapter 3 The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State 71 Chapter 4 The State and the Cêri 91 Chapter 5 Settling Land, Sowing Conflict, or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality 118 Chapter 6 The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission-State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity 144 Chapter 7 Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating "a Friction Where None Exists" 168 Chapter 8 Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public 190 Chapter 9 The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social 217 Conclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies 240 GLOSSARY 259 NOTES 261 ARCHIVAL SOURCES 345 BIBLIOGRAPHY 349 INDEX 377
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