Encyclopaedia of Untouchables Ancient, Medieval and ModernThe book entitled Encyclopaedia of Untouchables, Ancient, Medieval and Modern compiled in 2 volumes witnesses to the fact that how the Brahminical ideology used to behave with the poor people of the Father which is totally unbearable to a normal person, even though they used to clean the cities, latrines, skin of the dead animals which were owned by the Brahmans. Hence, the Dalit literature is not a simple literature, it is associated with a movement to bring about a change in the society by working personally to realize the basic facts of the life, but Brahmans are only the philosophers of their literature, working for their personal benefit not for others. It has established its own strong tradition with anti-caste or untouchables thinker like Buddha, Ved Vyash, Valmiki, Qutab-ud-Din Aebik, Balban, Balban, Firoz Shah Tuglaq, Barani the great writer, Amir Timur, Sultan Sikandar of Kashmir, Zain-ul- Abidin, Mirza Haidar Dughlat, Babar, Ravidas, Akbar, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Phule, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, many more as its sign posts. |
Contents
List of Illustrations 79 | 7 |
Preface | 15 |
Early History of the Untouchables | 33 |
Nature of the CasteGroups | 41 |
LeatherWorkers and Weavers of Early Period | 51 |
Early Medieval History of the Untouchables 6501050 A D | 129 |
Costumes and Textiles Under the Untouchables Rulers of Early and Later | 207 |
Kabir the Weaver of Gods Name Costumes and Textiles in Lexicons Sewn Garments | 219 |
Position of the Untouchables During the Medieval Period of India 1500 to 1707 A D | 247 |
Washermen Dyers and Tailors | 347 |
Watermen Boatmen and Weavers | 359 |
Workers in Wood Iron Stone and Clay | 365 |
Workers in Other Metals and Minerals | 379 |
Common terms and phrases
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