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  • Untouchable Friends

    by Son Lal ...
    In the 1970s Baya and other children in the Rajasthan region, India, worked as sweepers at houses, where they were treated as untouchables. Although outsiders kept away from them, they enjoyed each others company, being good friends. Ageold prejudice and feudal attitudes influenced the life of their families, as they belonged to a caste with sweeping and cleaning toilets as the traditional ... Read more

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  • The Land Of The Rulers

    by Son Lal ...
    Feudal land, war and village fort life in the Rajasthan desert.A Rathore clan ruled Chelana village for a few centuries up to the end of feudal rule in 1952. Their ups and downs are narrated by Tan Dan and other sources. How the clan fought at the battle fields and how it lived at home. How the Marwar ruler granted land to the feudal elite, and the way the Chelana village lord did the same at his ... Read more

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  • Many Untouchable Castes

    by Son Lal ...
    The book is about caste competition in feudal Rajasthan in the mid-20th century. About groups segregated by highcaste Hindus in the Marvar desert region. Castes heavily burdened by ageold customs prescribed by the feudal elite. The behaviour towards ritual untouchables. Attempts to rise in the society by leaving work disdained by others. As narrated by Tan Dan, a villager of the area.Tan Dan shows ... Read more

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  • The Young Desert Farmer

    by Son Lal ...
    A small dry sluggish feudal village in western Rajasthan came alive after the villagers managed to pump irrigation water from great depth. Tan Dan and his livestock breeding clan became commercial farmers more powerful than the former feudal lords. Tenants became landowners participating in the casteridden political game of the area.Tan Dan tried modern farming based on agricultural science. ... Read more

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  • Djupdykningar I Det Indiska Folkhavet

    by Son Lal ...
    Det här är en dagbok från resor på egen hand bland vanligt folk i norra delen av Indien mellan 2008 och 2012. Ett försök att förstå tillvaron för dem, som har mycket knappa resurser. Genom samtal med dem på deras eget språk. Med fattiga bönder och bybor, med dem som utsätts för kastdiskriminering, och dem som har urusla bostäder i små och stora städer. Från Gujarat i väster till Bihar i öster ... Read more

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  • A Voice Of The Indian Desert

    by Son Lal ...
    Tan Dan about fights in the feudal age, and the liberation of the feudal serfs in the 1950s. Narrations from his native village. Detha cattlebreeders had clashes with feudal lords, who did not want to accept any rivalry to their supremacy. Untouchable Hindus worked as humiliated serfs. Among them Harji, who was beaten so much that he died. His hair was too long. Eventually the suppressed farmers ... Read more

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  • Cattle Nomads Of The Indian Desert

    by Son Lal ...
    About nomads in Rajasthan who have grazed cattle on a large scale since early history. With a pastoral culture from the west in Asia, that partly differed from the culture of the settled Hindus of the Indian subcontinent. Tan Dan's forefathers were a part of that nomadic culture, to which also ox caravan traders belonged and small groups with other professions. Before trains and trucks, timely ... Read more

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