Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India

by Parasher-Sen, Aloka

ISBN13:
9780195665420
ISBN10:
0195665422
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2004-03-25
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This collection of eleven essays, part of the Themes in Indian History Series, discusses different historiographical approaches to the study of subordinate and marginal groups in early India. Parasher-Sen attempts to understand the historical roots of social oppression and exclusion in the subcontinent, thus making an early historical phenomenon directly relevant to an issue that causes concern even today.

Introduction

(82)

PART I: SUBORDINATE GROUPS

1. The Despised Castes: North-East India in Buddha's Time

RICHARD FICK

(13)

2. Slavery in Ancient India: As Depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts

DEV RAJ CHANANA

(29)

3. Evolution of Untouchability in Tamil Nadu up to AD 1600

K.R. HANUMANTHAN

125

(32)

4. Candala and the Origin of Untouchability

VIVEKANAND JHA

157

(53)

5. Women, Men, and Beasts: The Jatokas as Popular Tradition

UMA CHAKRAVARTI

210

(33)

6. Chokhamela and Eknath: Two Bhakti Modes of Legitimacy for Modern Change

ELEANOR ZELLIOT

243

(32)

PART II: MARGINAL GROUPS

7. 'Foreigner' and 'Tribe' as Barbarian (Mleccha) in Larly North India

ALOKA PARASHER-SEN

275

(39)

8. Is There a Tamd Race?

DAGMAR HELLMAN-RAJANAYAGAM

314

(35)

9. The Tyranny of Labels

ROMILA THAPAR

349

(25)

10. Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims

BRAJADULAL CHATTOPADHYAYA

374

(31)

11. Vaisnava Perceptions of Muslims in Sixteenth-Century Bengal

J.T. O 'CONNELL

405

(24)

Index

429

(20)

Notes on Contributors

449

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