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The book explores the health conditions of communities who have suffered from caste prejudices in India for generations. It specifically focuses on the Hadi Caste, and uses the Bauri Caste as a point of reference. The state of Jharkhand in India has been the traditional homeland for the Hadis, listed as one of the Scheduled Castes in the Census of India documents. The book discusses their traditional occupations, customs, rituals, and social interactions in order to offer a detailed understanding of the socio-cultural and political interactions between the health and life status of the Hadi community.

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K.M. Ziyauddin is Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, India, where he previously worked with the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (Sociology). His publications include Dimensions of Social Exclusion: An Ethnographic Exploration; Muslim Scavengers in India: Perception and Perspectives of Social Exclusion (2012); and Muslims of India: Exclusionary Process and Inclusionary Measures (2012), in addition to research papers published in both national and international journals. He received his PhD in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi, India. His primary research interests include the sociology of health and illness, Dalits, Muslims in India and gender politics in the context of Muslim communities.

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