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Introduction : The mobility question in modern Singapore -- Youth and educational marginality in multicultural contexts -- Educational mobility in a multiracial city-state -- a social capital story -- The politics of racialization and social mobility amongst ethnic Tamils in Singapore -- You are normal : Contextualizing schooling experiences amongst Tamil youths -- Being Tamil in Singapore -- Conclusion : Labouring to learn.

6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925-7The Making of a Commission; The Gold Standard Controversy; The Politics of Silver, 1927-35; Gold-Bullion Standard -- Myth and Reality; 7 The Depression Years; 'Gold Shortage' and the Sterling Crisis; The Depression and India's External Sector; The Policy Response and Constraints; Gold Exports and Sterling Policy; Gold Exports and the Indian Economy; A Gold Glut?; Conclusion; 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; The Early Impetus for Central Banking.

In Indian context

AbstractThis article explores the entwined history of early colonial urbanism and the articulation of legal subjectivity under East India Company rule in South India. More specifically, it looks at petitions from outcaste labouring groups to the Madras government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although early colonial petitions were unequivocally products of colonial rule, which derived their distinctive form and language from colonial law, a reading of the petition archive is one of the only ways to achieve a historical understanding of the city of Madras as it was experienced by its less privileged inhabitants. This article looks at the delineation of the communal selfhood of subaltern urban communities through petition narratives, arguing that the variety and innovativeness displayed by petition writers is testament both to the acceptance of colonial legality and to the agency of native subjects in negotiating with, and appropriating the language and rationale of, the colonial legal regime.

Untouchables constitute the bottom layer of the hierarchy of Indian caste system. The menial jobs assigned to them and the way they are treated in society certify their role as the 'other'. Manual Scavenging is a practice still existing in India which creates self othering in outcastes. Mulk Raj Anand's novel Untouchable lays down the stigma associated with manual scavenging by exploring the life of Bakha, an untouchable. This paper analyses Untouchable as a seminal work dealing with the othering and oppression meted out to the lowcastes. The hypocrisy of the upper castes and the influences of British rule and Christianity have a role in the process of othering of the untouchable in Indian society. For an outcaste like Bakha, even the hope of equality and freedom from untouchability and poverty is futile. The democratic constitution of India, offering equality of status and opportunities to its citizens fails to eradicate the divisions and discriminations based on caste system. The scientific knowledge and technological inventions have brought changes in labour based divisions in society. But occupations like manual scavenging exist in the central belt of India segregating the population.

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