Ex-Untouchable
Problems, Progress, and Policies in Indian Social Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2874984 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara R Joshi (SUNY Geneseo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2757470 |
| OpenAlex | W2330530426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
INCREASINGLY FREQUENT international press coverage of violence against Untouchables has drawn renewed attention to India's thirty-year-old constitutional commitment to eliminate the centuriesold practice of untouchability and to ensure for its citizens EQUALITY of status and of opportunity.' For international scholars of social and political change, the experience of India's Untouchables (officially, Scheduled Castes) is a test-case of the all-too-common problem of providing equality for once-despised low-status minorities. For Indian policy-makers, it poses increasingly thorny and pressing political issues. There is much that is familiar to observers of developing nations in these political issues: the rising aspirations of a traditionally depressed group, with frustrations rising even more rapidly; the persisting importance of both low ascriptive status and low class status; the emergence of Untouchable organizations aimed at increasing mobility; and the rapidly escalating opposition of fellow-citizens determined that change shall not occur. The case of the Untouchablesand of India's tribals-is distinctive in one important way: policies guaranteeing proportional legislative representation and encouraging
Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 1999 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |