Capturing Caste in Law The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination.

Capturing Caste in Law The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination.

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Main Author: Waughray, Annapurna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
Series:Routledge Research in Human Rights Law Ser.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Equality Act 2010.
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination > (1965 December 21)
Caste > Law and legislation > India > History.
Dalits > Legal status, laws, etc. > India.
Caste-based discrimination > India.
Caste > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History.
Caste-based discrimination > Great Britain.
Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain.
International law and human rights.
India > Scheduled tribes > Legal status, laws, etc.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Table of cases and decisions
  • Table of legislation
  • List of treaties and instruments
  • Foreword
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Context
  • Conceptual approach
  • Methods and sources
  • Organisation of the book
  • Part I The making and remaking of caste
  • 1 What is caste?
  • 1.1 Introductory concepts
  • 1.1.1 Caste
  • 1.1.2 Descent
  • 1.1.3 Varna
  • 1.1.4 Dalits: outside the varna system
  • 1.1.5 Jati
  • 1.1.6 Biraderi
  • 1.1.7 Caste membership and mobility
  • 1.1.8 Markers for caste
  • 1.1.9 Caste and occupation
  • 1.1.10 Caste and religion
  • 1.1.11 Caste as a cross-cultural concept
  • 1.1.12 Caste in the diaspora
  • 1.1.13 The concept and practice of untouchability
  • 1.1.13.1 Untouchability, pollution and stigma
  • 1.1.13.2 "Touch" as a category
  • 1.1.13.3 Untouchability, social exclusion and violence
  • 1.1.13.4 Is untouchability an integral aspect of caste?
  • 1.1.13.5 Ambedkar, untouchability, Hinduism and caste
  • 1.2 Religious and historical origins of a caste society
  • 1.2.1 Ancient India: Indo-Aryans, the Rg Veda and the origins of varna
  • 1.2.1.1 The Rg Veda and varna
  • 1.2.1.2 Purusa-Sukta: the Creation Myth
  • 1.2.2 Origins of jati
  • 1.2.3 Hierarchy, heredity, endogamy and commensality
  • 1.2.4 Origin of untouchability
  • 1.3 Sociological theories and interpretations of caste
  • 1.3.1 Colonialism and the emergence of caste as a sociological concept
  • 1.3.2 Racial theories of caste
  • 1.3.3 Caste and genetics
  • 1.3.4 Ambedkar's theory of caste
  • 1.3.5 Louis Dumont and his critics
  • 1.3.6 Post-Dumont: caste as orientalist "invention"
  • 1.3.7 The 'tenacity of caste'
  • 1.4 Conclusion
  • 2 The Dalits and the history of caste inequality
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Vedic period c 1500-500 BCE: varna, dharma and karma
  • 2.2.1 The varna classificatory system
  • 2.2.2 The concepts of dharma and karma
  • 2.2.3 Legal nature of the early Vedic texts
  • 2.3 The post-Vedic and classical period: dharma literature c 500 BCE-700 CE
  • 2.3.1 Dharmasutras
  • 2.3.2 Kautilya's Arthasasthra
  • 2.3.3 Dharmasastras
  • 2.2.3.1 Manusmrti
  • 2.3.4 Legal nature of the Dharmasastras
  • 2.3.5 The feudal era c 800-1200 CE: mobility versus inequality
  • 2.4 Medieval/Islamic India c 1206-1707
  • 2.4.1 The wider setting
  • 2.4.2 Smrti commentarial texts and digests
  • 2.5 British India, law and caste inequality 1600-1857
  • 2.5.1 1600-1772: Mughal decline and the ascendancy of the British
  • 2.5.2 1772-1857: company rule, Anglo-Hindu law and caste
  • 2.5.3 1858-1900: the Crown and caste inequality
  • 2.6 Nepal: the Muluki Ain (Nepali Royal Law Code) 1854
  • 2.7 Direct British rule and caste reform: 1858-1947
  • 2.7.1 Ambedkar and the Untouchables
  • 2.7.2 The "Scheduled Castes"
  • 2.8 Conclusion
  • 3 The legal regulation of caste discrimination: lessons from India
  • 3.1 Introduction

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