000728849 000__ 04497cam\a2200517\i\4500 000728849 001__ 728849 000728849 005__ 20210515105431.0 000728849 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000728849 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000728849 008__ 150924t20142014nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000728849 019__ $$a899002125 000728849 020__ $$a9780231537506$$q(electronic book) 000728849 020__ $$z9780231163064 000728849 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn884645747 000728849 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10975980 000728849 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643216 000728849 035__ $$a728849 000728849 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000728849 043__ $$aa-ii--- 000728849 05014 $$aDS432.P25$$b.V57 2014eb 000728849 08204 $$a305.5/6880954$$223 000728849 1001_ $$aViswanath, Rupa,$$eauthor. 000728849 24514 $$aThe Pariah problem :$$bcaste, religion, and the social in modern India /$$cRupa Viswanath. 000728849 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$c[2014] 000728849 264_4 $$c©2014 000728849 300__ $$a1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages). 000728849 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000728849 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000728849 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000728849 4901_ $$aCultures of History 000728849 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000728849 5050_ $$aLand tenure or labor control? The Agrarian mise-en-scène -- Conceptualizing Pariah conversion: caste, spirit, matter, and penury -- The Pariah-missionary alliance: Agrarian contestation and the local state -- The state and the cēri -- Settling land, sowing conflict; or, the rise and rise of religious neutrality -- The marriage of sacred and secular authority: new liberalism, mission-state relations, and the birth of authenticity -- Giving the panchama a home: creating "a friction where none exists" -- Everyday warfare: caste, class, and the public -- The depressed classes, rights, and the embrace of the social -- Conclusion: The pariah problem's enduring legacies. 000728849 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000728849 520__ $$a"Once known as 'Pariahs,' Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the 'Pariah problem' in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the 'problem'--with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination."--Publisher's Web site. 000728849 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000728849 650_0 $$aPariahs$$xHistory. 000728849 650_0 $$aPariahs$$xSocial conditions. 000728849 650_0 $$aCaste$$zIndia$$xHistory. 000728849 651_0 $$aIndia$$xSocial conditions. 000728849 651_0 $$aIndia$$xHistory. 000728849 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aViswanath, Rupa.$$tPariah problem.$$dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2014]$$z9780231163064$$w(DLC) 2013047446$$w(OCoLC)863199814 000728849 830_0 $$aCultures of history. 000728849 8520_ $$bacq 000728849 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000728849 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 000728849 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1643216$$zOnline Access 000728849 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1643216$$zOnline Access 000728849 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:728849$$pGLOBAL_SET 000728849 980__ $$aEBOOK$$aEBOOK 000728849 980__ $$aBIB 000728849 982__ $$aEbook 000728849 983__ $$aOnline