Untouchables

The Untouchables of India

"This book addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as penetrating insights into its social and religious origins. The author persuasively demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion." "The situation of untouchables is crucial to the understanding of caste dynamics, especially in contemporary circumstances, but emphasis, particularly within anthropology, has been placed on the dominant aspects of the caste system rather than on those marginalized and excluded from it. This book redresses this problem and represents a vital contribution to studies of India, Hinduism, human rights, sociology, and anthropology."--Jacket

The Untouchables

The Untouchables was a triumph of the television crime/gangster genre, produced at the high-tide mark of the US film-series drama in the early 1960s. The series centred on the crusade of Federal Agent Eliot Ness (played by Robert Stack) against the dark forces of the prohibition-era Chicago underworld lorded over by Al 'Scarface' Capone. The long-running series featured seminal roles from a variety of screen personalities (such as Leslie Nielsen, Peter Falk, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Redford, Robert Duvall) as well as established Hollywood players (Lee Van Cleef, Lee Marvin, Patricia Neal, Barbara Stanwyck, Dorothy Malone). The show was a watershed that set new standards for action drama and pioneered a more explicit approach to the representation of violence on television - a development which provoked controversy and acclaim in equal measure.

Water Facilities for the Untouchables in Rural Gujarat