The Persistence of Caste
The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Seiten
2010
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84813-449-2 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84813-449-2 (ISBN)
While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian constitution, according to official statistics, every 18 minutes a crime is committed in India on a member of the dalit caste. This book explodes the myth that caste is a feudal relic, and argues that it has been well assimilated by both capitalist India and globalising India.
While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed in India on a dalit-untouchable.
The Persistence of Caste uses the shocking case of Khairlanji, the brutal murder of four members of a dalit family in 2006, to explode the myth that caste no longer matters. In this exposé, Anand Teltumbde locates the crime within the political economy of post-Independence India and across the global Indian diaspora. This book demonstrates how caste has shown amazing resilience - surviving feudalism, capitalist industrialization and a republican constitution - to still be alive and well today, despite all denial, under neoliberal globalization.
This insightful new analysis not only provides a fascinating introduction to the issue of caste in a globalized world, but also sharpens our understanding of caste dynamics as they really exist.
While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution, according to official statistics, every eighteen minutes a crime is committed in India on a dalit-untouchable.
The Persistence of Caste uses the shocking case of Khairlanji, the brutal murder of four members of a dalit family in 2006, to explode the myth that caste no longer matters. In this exposé, Anand Teltumbde locates the crime within the political economy of post-Independence India and across the global Indian diaspora. This book demonstrates how caste has shown amazing resilience - surviving feudalism, capitalist industrialization and a republican constitution - to still be alive and well today, despite all denial, under neoliberal globalization.
This insightful new analysis not only provides a fascinating introduction to the issue of caste in a globalized world, but also sharpens our understanding of caste dynamics as they really exist.
Anand Teltumbde is a human rights activist, writer, commentator and analyst of the contemporary dalit and left movements.
1. Introduction: Caste: A Historical Outline
2. Beyond Varna: Caste in the 21st Century
3. The Political Economy: The Shaping of the Macabre Spectacle
4. Anti-Atrocity Law: Mitigation and its Malcontents
5. The Khairlanji Murders: Genealogy and Aftermath
6. Post-Khairlanji: A Chronicle of Repression
7. Mass Media: Massive Prejudice
8. Atrocities by the State: Neoliberalism, Naxalism and Dalits
9. Exploding Myths: Globalisation, Civil Society and the Bahujan
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.10.2010 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84813-449-5 / 1848134495 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84813-449-2 / 9781848134492 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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