Author : Valerian Rodrigues
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195670554
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) is both the towering symbol of protest against age-old and contemporary forms of exploitation in India and a scholar-sage proposing fair terms of social association. An untouchable himself, he led a resolute and adroit struggle against untouchability and attempted to reformulate the terms of nationalist discourse in India. This selection draws from his major works, speeches, letters and memoranda.
Author : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788129135070
Selected from previously published multi-volume work titled: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches.
Author : Aishwary Kumar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 080479426X
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held irreconcilable views on empire, politics, and society. As such, they are rarely studied together. This book reassesses their complex relationship, focusing on their shared commitment to equality and justice, which for them was inseparable from anticolonial struggles for sovereignty. Both men inherited the concept of equality from Western humanism, but their ideas mark a radical turn in humanist conceptions of politics. This study recovers the philosophical foundations of their thought in Indian and Western traditions, religious and secular alike. Attending to moments of difficulty in their conceptions of justice and their languages of nonviolence, it probes the nature of risk that radical democracy's desire for inclusion opens within modern political thought. In excavating Ambedkar and Gandhi's intellectual kinship, Radical Equality allows them to shed light on each other, even as it places them within a global constellation of moral and political visions. The story of their struggle against inequality, violence, and empire thus transcends national boundaries and unfolds within a universal history of citizenship and dissent.
Author : B.R. Ambedkar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 178168832X
“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste The classic work of Indian Dalit politics, reframed with an extensive introduction by Arundathi Roy B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.
Author : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Providing an important introduction, this book is a compilation of judiciously selected, thoroughly edited writings of B. R. Ambedkar. It serves as an excellent guide to the evolution of his thought and should be a ready reference on Ambedkar's most important works for students and researchers of political science, history, and sociology. It will also interest all those who deal with scheduled castes, tribes, and social classes.
Author : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1992
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher : Leftword Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789380118451
"In the early 1950s, Ambedkar started work on a book he wanted to call India and communism. The book was never finished. The present volume assembles what survives of his book, along with a section of another unfinished book, Can I be a Hindu?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Anand Teltumbde
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353053137
This landmark volume, edited and introduced by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde, establishes B.R. Ambedkar as the most powerful advocate of equality and fraternity in modern India. While the vibrant Dalit movement recognizes Ambedkar as an agent for social change, the intellectual class has celebrated him as the key architect of the Indian Constitution and the political establishment has sought to limit his concerns to the question of reservations. This remarkable volume seeks to unpack the radical in Ambedkar's legacy by examining his life work from hitherto unexplored perspectives. Although revered by millions today primarily as a Dalit icon, Ambedkar was a serious scholar of India's history, society and foreign policy. He was also among the first dedicated human rights lawyers, as well as a journalist and a statesman. Critically evaluating his thought and work, the essays in this book-by Jean Drèze, Partha Chatterjee, Sukhadeo Thorat, Manu Bhagavan, Anupama Rao and other internationally renowned names-discuss Ambedkar's theory on minority rights, the consequences of the mass conversion of Dalits to Buddhism, Dalit oppression in the context of racism and anti-Semitism, and the value of his thought for Marxism and feminism, among other global concerns. An extraordinary collection of immense breadth and scholarship that challenges the popular understanding of Ambedkar, The Radical in Ambedkar is essential reading for all those who wish to imagine a new future.
Author : Ramesh Menon
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788129136831
"One of the pillars of Indian democracy who played a pivotal role in shaping the Indian Constitution, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is also known for his radical, no-holds-barred views on discrimination against the backward classes, particularly the Untouchables, and the caste politics practised by Hindus. Born an Untouchable, he fought social discrimination at every step of his life. He was always vocal about his opposition to the treatment of not only Dalits, but also women and the disadvantaged. His path-breaking ideas, most of which are relevant even today, are reflected in his writings. In The Essential Ambedkar, the finest extracts from Ambedkar's impressive body of work have been selected and thematically arranged, covering issues such as caste and untouchability, the philosophy of Hinduism, the making of the Indian Constitution, the emancipation of women, India's education policy, the Partition and much more. Both a handy reference guide as well as a useful introduction to readers unfamiliar with Ambedkar's works, The Essential Ambedkar is befitting tribute to the legacy of Babasaheb." -- Cover jacket.
Author : B. R. Ambedkar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0231551517
One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive. Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propose a genealogy of Untouchability. He contends that modern-day Dalits are descendants of those Buddhists who were fenced out of caste society and rendered Untouchable by a resurgent Brahminism since the fourth century BCE. The Brahmins, whose Vedic cult originally involved the sacrifice of cows, adapted Buddhist ahimsa and vegetarianism to stigmatize outcaste Buddhists who were consumers of beef. The outcastes were soon relegated to the lowliest of occupations and prohibited from participation in civic life. To unearth this lost history, Ambedkar undertakes a forensic examination of a wide range of Brahminic literature. Heavily annotated with an emphasis on putting Ambedkar and recent scholarship into conversation, Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men assumes urgency as India witnesses unprecedented violence against Dalits and Muslims in the name of cow protection.
