Ebook: The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India

Land tenure or labor control? The Agrarian mise-en-scène --

Conceptualizing Pariah conversion: caste, spirit, matter, and penury --

The Pariah-missionary alliance: Agrarian contestation and the local state --

The state and the cēri --

Settling land, sowing conflict; or, the rise and rise of religious neutrality --

The marriage of sacred and secular authority: new liberalism, mission-state relations, and the birth of authenticity --

Giving the panchama a home: creating "a friction where none exists" --

Everyday warfare: caste, class, and the public --

The depressed classes, rights, and the embrace of the social --

Conclusion: The pariah problem's enduring legacies.