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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 23] 2020
► pp. 77–110

Caste and language

 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Published online: 20 November 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.23.cas3
Article outline
  • 1.Caste in colonial and postcolonial India
    • 1.1Race and caste
    • 1.2Census and caste
      • 1.2.1The census in contemporary India
      • 1.2.2The colonial census of India
    • 1.3The ‘People of India’ project
    • 1.4Literary expressions
    • 1.5Lexicology
  • 2.Caste in contemporary India
    • 2.1The cognitive paradox of ‘untouchability’
    • 2.2Stigmatized bodies
    • 2.3The fiction of caste
    • 2.4Gender and caste
  • References
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