Entangled Impurities in Contemporary Sindh: Some Evidence from Law and Bureaucracy
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Abstract This article lays out a framework for conceptualizing how religious differences and hierarchical, hereditary inequality consolidate in contemporary Sindh. I argue that the terms Hindu, Dalit, hari are often conflated due to their entangled trajectories. Addressing this conflation sheds light on structural discrimination function The begins by focusing government document limits potential applicants sanitation job “non-Muslims.” Next, it explores category of Hindu has become, over time, susceptible ritual stigmas, social marginalization, caste oppression, hierarchization. Last, addresses legal judgment hinges recognizing but cannot say so. Analysis decision reveals entanglement categories produces certain citizen-subjects as perpetual minors requiring state’s paternalistic protection. Throughout, illustrates production multiple hierarchies fabric Sindh Pakistan broadly operates through deployment stigma public secret.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sindhi studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2667-0925']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/26670925-bja10012