COMPARATIVE STUDIES of SOUTH ASIA,
AFRICA and the MIDDLE EAST (CSSAAME)

Vol. XVIII No. 1 (1998)


Untouchability and Beyond: French Studies of Indian Dalits
Guest edited by Jean-Luc Racine


Jean-Luc Racine: Introduction

Jean-Luc & Josiane Racine: Dalit Identities and the Dialectics of Oppression and Emancipation

Dominique-Sila Khan: Is God an Untouchable?

Robert Deliege: Untouchability and Catholicism

Christophe Jaffrelot: The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India



Reframing Political Debates
Edtited by V. Kaiwar, S. Mazumdar,
and M. West



Achin Vanaik: The Indian Nuclear Tests

Jonathan Reynolds: Islam, Politics and Women’s Rights

Rashid Khalidi: The “Middle East” as a Framework of Analysis

Saurabh Dube: Ethnographic Histories and Untouchable Pasts

Jeff Rudin: Challenging Apartheid’s Foreign Debt