TY  - BOOK
TI  - Broken people : caste violence against India's "untouchables."
SN  - 9781564322289
U1  - 323.1086940954 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Human rights watch
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Caste--Law and legislation
KW  - Dalits--Social conditions
KW  - Dalits--Civil rights
N2  - This report is about caste, but it is also about class, gender, poverty, labor, and land. For those at the bottom of its hierarchy, caste is a determinative factor for the attainment of social, political, civil, and economic rights. Most of the conflicts documented in this report take place within very narrow segments of the caste hierarchy, between the poor and the not-so-poor, the landless laborer and the small landowner. The differences lie in the considerable amount of leverage that the higher-caste Hindus or non-Dalits are able to wield over local police, district administrations, and even the state government
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