Renunciation and untouchability in India : the notional and the empirical in the caste order /
This volume develops a historically informed phenomenology of caste and untouchability. It explores the idea of 'Brahmin' and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. By going beyond the notions of purity and pollution, it presents a new...
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| Main Author: |
Ramanujam, Srinivasa
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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