Table of Contents:
PREFACE;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;
INTRODUCTION: THEORIZING HUMILIATION (GOPAL GURU);
SECTION I: FOREGROUNDING HUMILIATION AS CLAIM ;
1. Logic of Humiliation (Bhiku Parekh);
2. Humiliation: Politics and the Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation (Ashis Nandy);
3. Humiliation and Justice (Upendra Baxi); v;
4. Understanding Humiliation (Sanjay Palshikar);
SECTION II: CONTEXTUALIZING HUMILIATION;
5. Bereft of Being: Untouchability and Humiliation (V. Geetha) ;
6. Untouchability, Filth and Public Domain (Valerian Rodrigues) ;
7. Humiliation in Crematorium (Peter deSouza) ;
8. Equality of What or the Troublesome Relations between Egalitarianism and Respect (Neera Chandhoke);
SECTION III: SOCIETY, ECONOMY, AND HUMILIATION;
9. Political Economy of Humiliation (Suhas Palshikar) ;
10. Against Untouchability: The Discourse of Gandhi and Ambedkar (Thomas Pantham); BIBLIOGRAPHY;
INDEX.