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Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India
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Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India

by V. T. Rajshekar. 112 pgs.

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Contributors:

   V. T. Rajshekar

Publisher:

   Clarity Press

Place of Publication:

  Atlanta  

Publication Year:

  1987
Subjects:   Dalits--India, Caste--India
Table of contents
Table of Contents
Publisher's Note
The Author
New Perspectives for the North American Reader
Dalits and African-Americans
Assimilation, Quotas and Self-Determination
Foreword / Y. N. Kly
Integration or Intergradation
The Direction of the Present Leadership
US "Integration": Just a Strategy?
From Nation to Underclass: The Final Defeat
Culture and Oppression
The "Breaking-In" Process Continues
Illustrations
DALIT: The Black Untouchables of India / V. T. Rajshekar
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Who Are the Black Untouchables?
Nonviolence in Practice
The Role of the Press
The Hindu Caste System
The Ruling Class Controls Government
The Wonder of the Hindu Religion
A Probable Solution
The Indian Marxists
Let Down By Everybody
Appeal to the United Nations
Blacks as a Global Community / Runoko Rashidi
APPENDIX:
I:Intervention on Behalf of the Dalits to the UN Sub-Commission, 1995 / Dr. Laxmi Berwa
II: H.R. 1425: "Human Rights in India Act" / Bill presented to the U.S. Congress, April 6, 1995
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