Analysing social relations in contemporary India, Dube (1996) identified that the caste system prevails, its boundaries and hierarchies articulated by gender. The structure on which this social system is based was defined in Vedic philosophical texts about four thousand yeasrs ago and re-interpreted and made more rigid over the following two millennia. The interplay of water, caste and gender in Hindu society, in which water both is polluted by the touch of the impure and purifies those who are so polluted, is evident in the lives of women and men living in a group of Himalayan villages in India. This chapter describes the historical evolution of the beliefs that underpin today's Hindu society, and reviews the particular constraints faced b...
The Caste System in India is a complex and deeply ingrained social hierarchy that has existed for ce...
Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with wa...
Contemporary socio-economic transformations in South Asia are creating increasingly serious water pr...
This paper analyses Vedic philosophy1, the structural basis of currently practised Hinduism, to iden...
Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India’s drinking water policy fro...
This essay argues that access to water, and the right to water in India is subject to legal pluralis...
Due to copyright restrictions, this item cannot be sharedThis paper deals with the ways in which gen...
Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However...
This paper will examine the lives of women-water gatherers in rural India and the politics of access...
The management of irrigation water and other resources, as practiced by traditional farming communit...
Whether the Ganges river in Varanasi (India) is pristinely pure or heavily polluted depends on by wh...
This paper examines the relevance of caste heterogeneity on tap water access in rural India. Using c...
This article studies the meaning of water and gender in the North Indian pilgrimage to the sacred ri...
This paper traces the gendered changes in agrarian livelihoods in the lower Damodar valley of easter...
Existing norms, belief systems, heritage, and customs all contribute to the formation of a society's...
The Caste System in India is a complex and deeply ingrained social hierarchy that has existed for ce...
Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with wa...
Contemporary socio-economic transformations in South Asia are creating increasingly serious water pr...
This paper analyses Vedic philosophy1, the structural basis of currently practised Hinduism, to iden...
Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India’s drinking water policy fro...
This essay argues that access to water, and the right to water in India is subject to legal pluralis...
Due to copyright restrictions, this item cannot be sharedThis paper deals with the ways in which gen...
Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However...
This paper will examine the lives of women-water gatherers in rural India and the politics of access...
The management of irrigation water and other resources, as practiced by traditional farming communit...
Whether the Ganges river in Varanasi (India) is pristinely pure or heavily polluted depends on by wh...
This paper examines the relevance of caste heterogeneity on tap water access in rural India. Using c...
This article studies the meaning of water and gender in the North Indian pilgrimage to the sacred ri...
This paper traces the gendered changes in agrarian livelihoods in the lower Damodar valley of easter...
Existing norms, belief systems, heritage, and customs all contribute to the formation of a society's...
The Caste System in India is a complex and deeply ingrained social hierarchy that has existed for ce...
Caste rules prohibit the sharing of water between castes as a contact made by an untouchable with wa...
Contemporary socio-economic transformations in South Asia are creating increasingly serious water pr...
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