Purity-Pollution, Discrimination and Caste System in India

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Purity-Pollution is an universal phenomenon found in all the known societies in the world. Purity of mind, body and soul is believed to be essentially required to approach the divine objects. Pollution occurring due to birth, death, menstruation, puberty etc., is commonly observed by the people including tribals, Muslims and Christians in India. But, purity-pollution as a principle of caste system is unique in Indian social reality. Untouchability is the outcome of this principle where persons belonging to the so called untouchable castes or Scheduled Castes are hateful to the persons belonging to the higher castes. The present book is an attempt to understand different issues and problems relating to the caste system in India, such as purity-pollution, nature and sources of purity-pollution, hierarchical gradation of various castes and sub-castes, separation of castes/jatis and discrimination of one caste from another, division of labour or jajmani system and to deprive some persons of their rights as human beings, practice of untouchability and the like. This book will be immensely helpful to researchers and scholars in this field.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chitrasen Pasayat

Dr. Chitrasen Pasayat did his M.A. (1984), M. Phil. (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) in Sociology from Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was the recipient of National Scholarship (1978-82). He qualified the NET conducted by the UGC. New Delhi and awarded Fellowship (1985-91). He has to his credit more than forty research papers published in various journals namely Man in India, The Eastern Anthropologist, Man and Development , Urban India, The Oriental Anthropologist, Adivasi, The Orissa Historical Research Journal, Banaja, Orissa Review and in many edited books. He is associated with various learned bodies and associations. He is the Life-Member of the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi; Ethnographic and Folkculture Society, Lucknow; Institute of Applied Anthropology and Social Research, Bidisa; Orissa Economic Association; The Institute of Oriya Studies, Cuttack; Indian Folklore Association, Kolkata. He is the Founding Member and Vice-President of Association for Linking Community Education Development, Bargarh. His current interest in research are Tribal Studies, Development Issues, Childhood Studies, Ethnicity and Folkculture.