Untouchable: An Indian Life History

In: Routledge Library Editions: British in India v.25

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Part One Muli: An Indian Untouchable -- 1 Introducing Muli -- 2 Collecting Muli's Life History -- 3 The Setting of Muli's Life History -- Part Two Youth and Hopes -- 4 Muli's Childhood, 1932-44 -- 5 Bauris "Lift Up Their Faces," 1947-48 -- 6 A Guru for the Bauris, 1948 -- 7 Koki's Abortion, 1948 -- 8 "I Like You Sixteen Annas' Worth," 1948 -- 9 Grandmother Dungi's Death, 1948 -- 10 Koki's Marriage, 1948-49 -- 11 Doctor Babu, 1949 -- 12 Dash Babu's "Hot Disease," 1949 -- Part Three The Reluctant Householder -- 13 Muli's Inauspicious Marriage, 1950-52 -- 14 Traveling with Lakhi the Prostitute, 1953 -- 15 Kia Possessed, 1953-56 -- 16 Grandfather Dharma, 1956-57 -- 17 The White Bullocks, 1957 -- 18 Starvation and Family Quarrels, 1957-58 -- 19 Brother Anadi, 1959-60 -- 20 Kia's Illness, 1960 -- 21 Marrying and Divorcing a Tree Trunk, 1961 -- Part Four Bad Times -- 22 A Successful Business Venture, 1962 -- 23 Muli's Other Wife, 1962 -- 24 Living with Two Wives, 1962-63 -- 25 "We Sit Under People's Feet," 1965-69 -- 26 Transvestites and Prostitutes, 1969-72 -- 27 Kia's Attempted Suicide, 1971-72 -- 28 "The Taker of Discarded Rinds," 1970-71 -- 29 Harvest Tragedy, 1971-72 -- Part Five Interpretations -- 30 Analysis of Muli's Life History -- 31 Conclusions -- Appendix A: Bauri Rituals -- Appendix B: Bauri Marriage Rites -- Bibliography -- Glossary-Index