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The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India. By Rupa Viswanath. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xviii, 396 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2015

Anupama Rao*
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 

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11 See, e.g., Arendt, Hannah, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age (New York: Grove Press, 1978)Google Scholar.

12 A representative sample of scholarship would include work by Nicholas Dirks, Eugene Irschick, David Washbrook, M. S. S. Pandian, V. Geetha, and S. V. Rajadorai, as well as the vibrant Tamil-language scholarship devoted to the topic, including that of anti-caste thinkers such as Iyothee Thass, E. V. Ramasamy Periyar, and others.

13 Kumar, Dharma, Land and Caste in South India: Agricultural Labor in the Madras Presidency during the Nineteenth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1965)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

14 Dube, Saurabh, Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780–1950 (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1998)Google Scholar.

15 Rawat, Ramnarayan, Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)Google Scholar.