LEADER 04909nam 2200733 450 001 9910464489703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53750-6 024 7 $a10.7312/visw16306 035 $a(CKB)3710000000203547 035 $a(EBL)1643216 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001262285 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12541946 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001262285 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11216286 035 $a(PQKB)10830444 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001252305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643216 035 $a(DE-B1597)458536 035 $a(OCoLC)1011446765 035 $a(OCoLC)884645747 035 $a(OCoLC)979745621 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537506 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10975980 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL686161 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000203547 100 $a20141125h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Pariah problem $ecaste, religion, and the social in modern India /$fRupa Viswanath ; cover design, Milenda Nan Ok Lee 210 1$aNew York ;$aChichester, England :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (705 p.) 225 1 $aCultures of History 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-54879-X 311 $a0-231-16306-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface on Terminology --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Land Tenure or Labor Control?: The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène --$tChapter 2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury --$tChapter 3. The Pariah-Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State --$tChapter 4. The State and the C?ri --$tChapter 5. Settling Land, Sowing Conflict; or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality --$tChapter 6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission-State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity --$tChapter 7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating "a Friction Where None Exists" --$tChapter 8. Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public --$tChapter 9. The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social --$tConclusion: The Pariah Problem's Enduring Legacies --$tGLOSSARY --$tNOTES --$tARCHIVAL SOURCES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aOnce known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890's. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"-with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890's and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination. 410 0$aCultures of history. 606 $aPariahs$xHistory 606 $aPariahs$xSocial conditions 606 $aCaste$zIndia$xHistory 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions 607 $aIndia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPariahs$xHistory. 615 0$aPariahs$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aCaste$xHistory. 676 $a305.5/6880954 700 $aViswanath$b Rupa$01042910 702 $aLee$b Milenda Nan Ok 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464489703321 996 $aThe Pariah problem$92467537 997 $aUNINA