Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India : The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change
King, Mary Elizabeth
Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India : The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2015 - 344p
In the 1920s, in the south Indian village of Vykom, a nonviolent struggle sought to open to everyone the roads surrounding the Brahmin temple there. For centuries, any person or animal could walk those roads but not the so-called untouchable Hindus, whose use of the roads would "pollute" the high castes. From April 1924 to November 1925, Gandhi waged a satyagraha to put an end to this blatant discrimination.
9780199452668
Humanities and Social Science
954.83035 / KIN
Gandhian Nonviolent Struggle and Untouchability in South India : The 1924-25 Vykom Satyagraha and the Mechanisms of Change - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2015 - 344p
In the 1920s, in the south Indian village of Vykom, a nonviolent struggle sought to open to everyone the roads surrounding the Brahmin temple there. For centuries, any person or animal could walk those roads but not the so-called untouchable Hindus, whose use of the roads would "pollute" the high castes. From April 1924 to November 1925, Gandhi waged a satyagraha to put an end to this blatant discrimination.
9780199452668
Humanities and Social Science
954.83035 / KIN