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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"untouchable"”.
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Touching on the Untouchable: contesting contemporary Black south african masculinity and cultural identity through performance
… a maleness that seeks to dare touch on the untouchable. This, then serves as a written explication of research that seeks to engage the meanings and limitations of contemporary Black south african cultural identity (and in particular, the gendered dimensions of this experience) through the …
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Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India
… movement among Dalits (the oppressed as untouchable) in South India, the Parayar. Since the late 19th century, members of this caste, and a few others from Tamil-speaking areas, have been choosing to convert to Buddhism based on conscience and conviction. This phenomenon of religious …
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"The Verdict of History": Defining and Defending James Buchanan through Public Memorialization
… the public's new patriotic criteria, their once untouchable legacies became contested terrain. This thesis explores how changing definitions of patriotism influenced the public's consideration of and relationship with presidents, and how the former leaders — as well as their families and …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
… non-Brahmin Self, and his approach towards the untouchable Dalit castes. I argue that his fixation with the Brahmin identity as the ultimate Other responsible for the inferiorization of the non-Brahmin castes, and his consideration of this identity as immutable and irredeemable, made a lasting …
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Embedding the virtual within the real as a means of de-contextualizing/re-contextualizing the architectural artifact
… arose: how might new media help us to engage the untouchable aspects of places that have changed over time? What are the advantages of using new media when we cannot access the real? As I considered these issues, I became increasingly interested in the co-existence of a virtual and real version of …
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A literary exploration of ethnocentric segregation and discrimination in Bessie Head's Maru and Gasebalwe Seretse's The Pursuit of Xhai
… they were victimised as a low filthy nation and untouchable to the locals, their natural beauty and intelligence brought a bond of a good and loving relationship with the superior ethnic groups. On the other hand, the non-Masarwa people who were against ethnic segregation and discrimination …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
… three novels Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, and Untouchable, Anand explores the lives of of the down-trodden. The first chapter of this project defines and discusses the Hindu caste system of India as well as its unfavorable and negative consequences. It also addresses the damaging effects and …
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‘In the interests of justice’: cases of caste violence in the Supreme Court of India
… is most pronounced in India, where the formerly untouchable communities, now collectively identified as Dalits, are subjected to extreme marginalisation and violence. Caste-based discrimination is constitutionally recognised in India, and as a form of descent-based discrimination under the …
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The political economy of conflict between indigenous communities and dominant societies: adivasis, Maoist insurgents and the state in the central Indian tribal belt
… sections of society. On the one hand, are untouchable or dalit landless laborers who suffer economic exploitation at the hands of higher caste landowners. On the hand are tribal or adivasi landowning cultivators whose relative autonomy has come under increasing pressure over the past two …
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The Status, Survival, and Current Dilemma of a Female Dalit Cobbler of India
Historically, oppression has been and continues to be a serious issue of concern worldwide in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The structure of Indian society, with its hierarchies and power structures, is an ideal place to better understand the experience of oppression. Women …
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The Material Imagination: Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy
… the concept of home; it remains an untouched and untouchable ideal. Chapter 2 explores another side of the material imagination, looking at spatial aspects of the way we think. How do we picture ‘unfenced existence’ (CP, p. 49), for example? I shift from the local ‘here’ to the luminous dream of …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… those assaulted are deeply ingrained as holy and untouchable. The audience sees in such figures its own reflection. Lindenberger, in his book Historical Drama rightly argues that historical playwrights could "present a historical character or action within a broad framework of accepted notions". …