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The Unconquered People : The Liberation of an Oppressed Caste, Hardback Book

The Unconquered People : The Liberation of an Oppressed Caste Hardback

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This book explores the history and ethnography of the Chandala of classical literature, now known as Punjabi Christians.

Mapping their history of conquest and religiously-endorsed degradation, it discusses their subversive counter-narrative through genealogies, wedding songs, litanies and epic poetry; with its defiant proclamation of identity.

Rites of passage disclose an unreconstructed patriarchalism, where ritualized sexual joking is a form of equality creation. Eclecticism in their religious sensibilities, indicates how superficial adherence to the externals of major religions, was a survival tactic.

Their hidden religion and exclusion from Hindu dharm, shows why they never saw themselves as 'Hindus.' It traces how one group, Mazhabi Sikhs, became a model ofsocial mobility, how their economic world was transformed in the Chenab Canal Colonies and how a new identity began with the founding of Christian villages.

It analyses their embracing of Christianity as a 'Tactics of Consumption,' noting the factors that contributed to a turn towards Catholicism.

It observes their growing exclusion due to the Islamization of Pakistan.

Cautioning against the suppression of the 'memory' of oppression, it argues that seeing themselves as a lineage of belief andpraxis, can give meaning to their on-going historical struggle.

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