1. Who are the Untouchables? -- 2. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' -- 3. Religion, politics and the Untouchables from the nineteenth century to 1956 -- 4. Public policy I: adverse discrimination and compensatory discrimination -- 5. Public policy II: the anti-poverty programs -- 6. The new Untouchable proletariat: a case study of the Faridabad stone quarries -- 7. Untouchable politics and Untouchable politicians since 1956 -- 8. The question of reservation: the lives and careers of some Scheduled Caste MPs and MLAs -- 9. Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283) and index
