Manifestations of Academic Untouchability in India: Exclusionary Practices that Subvert Reservations in Admissions in Higher Education

The notions of ritual purity and pollution hierarchically grades people according to their castes, and this hierarchy is socially expressed in terms of unequal rights to space, and the idea of ‘untouchability’ is socially realized either in terms of a complete denial or the most inferior participat...

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Main Author: C. Jerome Samraj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brandeis University Library 2022-10-01
Series:Caste
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Online Access:https://ojs-prod-app1.unet.brandeis.edu:443/index.php/caste/article/view/374