This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar�

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Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, co

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Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a v