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Author Freeman, James M

Title Untouchable : an Indian Life History
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (434 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: British in India ; v. 25
Routledge library editions. British in India.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Part One Muli: An Indian Untouchable; 1 Introducing Muli; 2 Collecting Muli's Life History; 3 The Setting of Muli's Life History; Part Two Youth and Hopes; 4 Muli's Childhood, 1932-44; 5 Bauris ""Lift Up Their Faces, "" 1947-48; 6 A Guru for the Bauris, 1948; 7 Koki's Abortion, 1948; 8 ""I Like You Sixteen Annas' Worth, "" 1948; 9 Grandmother Dungi's Death, 1948; 10 Koki's Marriage, 1948-49; 11 Doctor Babu, 1949; 12 Dash Babu's ""Hot Disease, "" 1949
Part Three The Reluctant Householder13 Muli's Inauspicious Marriage, 1950-52; 14 Traveling with Lakhi the Prostitute, 1953; 15 Kia Possessed, 1953-56; 16 Grandfather Dharma, 1956-57; 17 The White Bullocks, 1957; 18 Starvation and Family Quarrels, 1957-58; 19 Brother Anadi, 1959-60; 20 Kia's Illness, 1960; 21 Marrying and Divorcing a Tree Trunk, 1961; Part Four Bad Times; 22 A Successful Business Venture, 1962; 23 Muli's Other Wife, 1962; 24 Living with Two Wives, 1962-63; 25 ""We Sit Under People's Feet, "" 1965-69; 26 Transvestites and Prostitutes, 1969-72; 27 Kia's Attempted Suicide, 1971-72
28 ""The Taker of Discarded Rinds, "" 1970-7129 Harvest Tragedy, 1971-72; Part Five Interpretations; 30 Analysis of Muli's Life History; 31 Conclusions; Appendix A: Bauri Rituals; Appendix B: Bauri Marriage Rites; Bibliography; Glossary-Index
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ISBN 9781351797962
1351797964