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Community Development Journal 2007 42(2):274-276; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsm005
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Untouchability in Rural India

Jon Davies

Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhadeo Thorat, Satish Deshpande and Amita Baviskar, SAGE Publications, India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2006, ISBN 0 7619-3507 X, 216 pp, £14.99

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The caste system is unique to India. It is deeply implicated in the Hinduism that is India's dominant religion. The caste system remains, as this excellent book shows, firmly and pervasively in place in spite of the ringing declaration in the 1949/50 Preamble to the Constitution of India that

‘We, the People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic, and to secure to all its citizens Justice, social economic and political, liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship, Equality of status and opportunity: and to promote among them all Fraternity assuring the dignity of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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