Author: G.S. Ghurye
Publisher: Popular Prakashan Ltd ,India
Keywords: india, race, caste
Number of Pages: 493
Published: 2005-01-15
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 8171542050
ISBN-13: 9788171542055
Classic on Indian caste, first pub. in 1932. expanded edition with new chapters. major work on modern India
Author:
Publisher: Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Keywords: india, system, caste, untouchability
Published: 2003
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8126114185
ISBN-13: 9788126114184
Author: William Alexander Fraser
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: caste
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-02-14
List price: $22.75
ISBN-10: 1437523749
ISBN-13: 9781437523744
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General;
Author: Nelson Reed
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: revised, yucatan, war, caste
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804740011
ISBN-13: 9780804740012
This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican historythe revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today.This revised edition is
Author: K S Chalam
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: development, india, human, reservations, based, caste
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-04-04
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0761935819
ISBN-13: 9780761935810
Caste-based reservations have existed in India for more than a century. Initially introduced by the British to bring equality of opportunity in education, reservation was later extended to other sectors of the development process to overcome the problem of economic inequalities attributed to caste. Even today, concepts like affirmative action and quotas are being debated to justify reservation. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of caste-based reservation on human development in India, taking into consideration the time series data. The book also analyzes the impact of
Author: Shyamlal
Publisher: South Asia Books
Keywords: economic, portraits, socio, caste, sweeper, bhangi
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 8171545505
ISBN-13: 9788171545506
COVERS ALL IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THEIR LIFE AND CULTURE.
Author: Tony Austin
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Pr
Keywords: caste, youth, commonwealth, clearly, old, home, picture
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2000-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0855752394
ISBN-13: 9780855752392
