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Untouchable: An Indian Life History (Routledge Library Editions: British in India) - Softcover

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Freeman, James M.

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9781138634572: Untouchable: An Indian Life History (Routledge Library Editions: British in India)
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ISBN 10: 1138634573 ISBN 13: 9781138634572
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Nearly 16% of India’s population – or over 100 million people – are untouchables. Most of them, despite decades of government efforts to improve their economic and social position, remain desperately poor, illiterate, subject to brutal discrimination and economic exploitation, and with no prospect for improvement of their condition. This is the autobiography, first published in 1979, of Muli, a 40-year-old untouchable of the Bauri caste, living in the Indian state of Orissa, as told to an American anthropologist. Muli is a narrator who combines rich descriptions of daily life with perceptive observations of his social surroundings. He describes with absorbing detail what it is like to be at the bottom of Indian life, and what happens when an untouchable attempts to break out of his accepted role.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138634573
ISBN 13 
9781138634572
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
434
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