01040pab a2200169 454500 180718b2009 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sarukkai, Sundar Phenomenology of untouchability 2009 p.39-48. 12 Sep This 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. Untouchables Economic and Political Weekly N 84075 84075 84075 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 44, Issue no: 37 AR84535 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR