00971pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002100040245003600061260000900097300001300106362001100119520065600130650001700786773003400803180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSarukkai, Sundar  aPhenomenology of untouchability  c2009  ap.39-48.  a12 Sep  aThis paper explores the philosophical foundations of untouchability through an analysis of the phenomenology of "touch". The sense of touch is unique in many ways; one such is the essential relation between touch and "untouch". Drawing on both Indian and western traditions, the paper begins by analysing the meaning of touch and then goes on to explore some meanings of "untouchable". It then concludes by pointing out the importance of untouchability within the Brahmin tradition and attempts to understand the process of supplementation which makes untouchability a positive virtue for the Brahmins and a negative fact for the Dalits. - Reproduced.  aUntouchables  aEconomic and Political Weekly