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Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-caste Self - Exploring the Political in South Asia 1st edition
Manuela Ciotti
Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-caste Self - Exploring the Political in South Asia 1st edition
Manuela Ciotti
Focusing on the low caste Chamar community, this book examines how some of them abandoned their traditional polluting work, and strategically entered the upper-caste weaving profession. Located within the changing politics of the time, it outlines human agency and its search for dignity.
312 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 23, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780415563116 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 145 × 224 × 23 mm · 500 g |
Language | English |
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