Archaeology of untouchability
By: Guru, Gopal.
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ArticlePublisher: 2009Description: p.49-56.Subject(s): Untouchables
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: Untouchability as a dynamic reality is bound to produce experience which is always in excess of its description. Hence, the available description is often inadequate to capture the totality of the meaning of the experience. To capture the full experience of untouchability, one requires to invoke other perspectives and methods. This paper argues that at the momenet there could be two such frameworks - the philosophical and the archaeological - that could open to us much richer and nuanced meanings of the phenomenon of untouchability. - Reproduced.
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 44, Issue no: 37 | Available | AR84536 |
Untouchability as a dynamic reality is bound to produce experience which is always in excess of its description. Hence, the available description is often inadequate to capture the totality of the meaning of the experience. To capture the full experience of untouchability, one requires to invoke other perspectives and methods. This paper argues that at the momenet there could be two such frameworks - the philosophical and the archaeological - that could open to us much richer and nuanced meanings of the phenomenon of untouchability. - Reproduced.
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