tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15324170.post113082270310593361..comments2023-11-05T02:43:12.011-05:00Comments on Qalandar: Entertaining PossibilitiesQalandarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822440676942755461noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15324170.post-1131513782369509362005-11-09T00:23:00.000-05:002005-11-09T00:23:00.000-05:00RE: "In modern uttaranchal dalits favored worse un...RE: "In modern uttaranchal dalits favored worse under british and they were better under the nepalis."<BR/><BR/>I can well believe that (see my comment above).Qalandarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822440676942755461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15324170.post-1131513746122605982005-11-09T00:22:00.000-05:002005-11-09T00:22:00.000-05:00Re: "How did the dalits favor worse" under the Pes...Re: "How did the dalits favor worse" under the Peshwas:<BR/><BR/>Under the LATER Peshwas (I say nothing at all about the earlier ones), there were a number of rather oppressive laws passed; for instance, Dalits were supposed to carry around a sweep/broom (so they could sweep away traces of their own footprints), and were also supposed to carry around a spittoon of sorts, so that they might not pollute everything around them and were supposed to spit only in that vessel. Dirks cites this example, but his wider point is of course that caste over all and in general (i.e. in a pan-Indian context) was far more problematic under the British than it had been prior to them...Qalandarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822440676942755461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15324170.post-1131510145985194202005-11-08T23:22:00.000-05:002005-11-08T23:22:00.000-05:00How did the dalits favor worse in peshwas...In mod...How did the dalits favor worse in peshwas...<BR/>In modern uttaranchal dalits favored worse under british and they were better under the nepalis.<BR/>I dont know much about the south but were the veddas better off than the burghese.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com