Look Inside

The Politics of Untouchability (Social Mobility and Social Change in a City of India)

$23.25
$31
(25% off)
Item Code: UAN929
Publisher: Gautam Book Center, Delhi
Author: Owen M. Lynch
Language: English
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 9789380292533
Pages: 251 (B/W Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 290 gm
Fully insured
Fully insured
Shipped to 153 countries
Shipped to 153 countries
More than 1M+ customers worldwide
More than 1M+ customers worldwide
100% Made in India
100% Made in India
23 years in business
23 years in business
Book Description
Foreword
In his Acknowledgments, Owen Lynch reports what a deep personal experience of friendship, humanity, and the resilience of the human spirit his years in India and his year and a half with the Jatavs of Agra City provided. His book about their lives, their quest for new identities, and their rise despite their poverty and their earlier dependence to new citizenship within their city and nation is both a witness for them and controlled social science. It is also a most significant documentation of cultural and social transformation. It tells of political evolution, of the tides of growth and change, of the currents sweeping the new nations, and among them India, old, burdened, and various beyond the lot of most of them (though probably wiser thereby), moving into modernity.

The social science Owen Lynch represents in this book is anthropology. Cultural and social anthropology goes forward while still much linked to the natural history which gave it birth. Its chief method is immersion in a scene of field-work; its techniques are participant observation, open interviews, documentation from people of the reasons, the courses, and the personal involvements of their on-going lives and unfolding careers. This method was once put to recording tribes of preliterate peoples; it was later naturalized to villages and country folk, especially in India, by European and Indian anthropologists. It has only recently been further transferred to city wards and the new urban populations of the developing and developed worlds. Empirical, comparative, and direct, such social science gives rich detail of the present and the immediate while it attempts as well to explain what it finds in terms general enough to cover a spectrum of the societies of the world and of the changes of all human evolution, thus uniting behavior to the universal process.

Book's Contents and Sample Pages











Frequently Asked Questions
  • Q. What locations do you deliver to ?
    A. Exotic India delivers orders to all countries having diplomatic relations with India.
  • Q. Do you offer free shipping ?
    A. Exotic India offers free shipping on all orders of value of $30 USD or more.
  • Q. Can I return the book?
    A. All returns must be postmarked within seven (7) days of the delivery date. All returned items must be in new and unused condition, with all original tags and labels attached. To know more please view our return policy
  • Q. Do you offer express shipping ?
    A. Yes, we do have a chargeable express shipping facility available. You can select express shipping while checking out on the website.
  • Q. I accidentally entered wrong delivery address, can I change the address ?
    A. Delivery addresses can only be changed only incase the order has not been shipped yet. Incase of an address change, you can reach us at help@exoticindia.com
  • Q. How do I track my order ?
    A. You can track your orders simply entering your order number through here or through your past orders if you are signed in on the website.
  • Q. How can I cancel an order ?
    A. An order can only be cancelled if it has not been shipped. To cancel an order, kindly reach out to us through help@exoticindia.com.
Add a review
Have A Question

For privacy concerns, please view our Privacy Policy

Book Categories