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The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India Rupa Viswanath

By: Publication details: New Delhi Navayana Publishing 2024Edition: 20th - Anniversary edDescription: xvii, 377 Pages 14 cmISBN:
  • 9788189059729
DDC classification:
  • 305.5 VIS
Contents:
PREFACE 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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PREFACE 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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