Author: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728859057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning doctorates in economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science.[11] In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India's independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India.In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.
Untouchables Or the Children of India's Ghetto
Author: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728859057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning doctorates in economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science.[11] In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India's independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India.In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728859057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Ambedkar was a prolific student, earning doctorates in economics from both Columbia University and the London School of Economics, and gained a reputation as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science.[11] In his early career he was an economist, professor, and lawyer. His later life was marked by his political activities; he became involved in campaigning and negotiations for India's independence, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing significantly to the establishment of the state of India.In 1956 he converted to Buddhism, initiating mass conversions of Dalits.
Between Babasaheb and Mahatma
Author: Hulas Singh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040175414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a critical comparative study of Jotirao Phule and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, modern India's two most prominent dalit leaders. Although they were not close contemporaries, they came to construct a firm structure of not only dalit ideology, but also dalit methodology to emancipate the oppressed and depressed sections of society. The book deals with their ideas in a new light highlighting aspects of convergence and contrast in their respective approach to philosophy, religion, society, and culture. It argues that deep down in his philosophic orientation, Phule was quintessentially closer to Gandhi than to Ambedkar. The author also contends that the usage of the term dalit exclusively in the caste-communitarian sense is essentially a product of post-independence political appropriation rather than social evolution. The book specifically brings to light the dynamics of humanism and nationalism on the one hand and that of communitarianism on the other in the context of twentieth-century colonial India. Notably, Gandhi is brought in the narrative to complete the triumvirate. Comprehensive and deeply grounded in primary research, this thought-provoking book will be indispensable for students and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, political science, political thought, exclusion studies, dalit and subaltern studies, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the writings of Ambedkar and Phule.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040175414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book is a critical comparative study of Jotirao Phule and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, modern India's two most prominent dalit leaders. Although they were not close contemporaries, they came to construct a firm structure of not only dalit ideology, but also dalit methodology to emancipate the oppressed and depressed sections of society. The book deals with their ideas in a new light highlighting aspects of convergence and contrast in their respective approach to philosophy, religion, society, and culture. It argues that deep down in his philosophic orientation, Phule was quintessentially closer to Gandhi than to Ambedkar. The author also contends that the usage of the term dalit exclusively in the caste-communitarian sense is essentially a product of post-independence political appropriation rather than social evolution. The book specifically brings to light the dynamics of humanism and nationalism on the one hand and that of communitarianism on the other in the context of twentieth-century colonial India. Notably, Gandhi is brought in the narrative to complete the triumvirate. Comprehensive and deeply grounded in primary research, this thought-provoking book will be indispensable for students and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, political science, political thought, exclusion studies, dalit and subaltern studies, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the writings of Ambedkar and Phule.
Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India
Author: Dag-Erik Berg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489877
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The book explains how questions of caste and law involve persistent challenges concerning inequality and democracy in India's postcolonial state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489877
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The book explains how questions of caste and law involve persistent challenges concerning inequality and democracy in India's postcolonial state.
Rethinking Difference in India Through Racialization
Author: Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000688313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by caste and tribe, for instance, have long articulated with historical forms of global racial capitalism. Ultimately, this book attends to the narratives and experiences of those living at the margins, who strategically deploy racial and antiracist concepts to build international solidarity movements beyond the narrow confines of the Indian nation-state. In so doing, it hopes to derive insights on the necessity of transnational translations, even as it directs renewed attention to the specificity of regional hierarchies that shape everyday life and death in India. This book is a significant new contribution to addressing fundamental questions of caste, race, and religious politics in India and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Geography, History and Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000688313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Through the analytic of racialization, the chapters in this book argue that social difference in India is reproduced and buttressed through casteist, racist, colonial, and Hindu nationalist projects that generate tacit or explicit consent for continued violence against racialized others. At the same time, the chapters look transnationally, examining how regional forms of difference marked by caste and tribe, for instance, have long articulated with historical forms of global racial capitalism. Ultimately, this book attends to the narratives and experiences of those living at the margins, who strategically deploy racial and antiracist concepts to build international solidarity movements beyond the narrow confines of the Indian nation-state. In so doing, it hopes to derive insights on the necessity of transnational translations, even as it directs renewed attention to the specificity of regional hierarchies that shape everyday life and death in India. This book is a significant new contribution to addressing fundamental questions of caste, race, and religious politics in India and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Politics, Geography, History and Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Law of Prevention of Atrocities on the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes
Author: T. R. Naval
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170228851
Category : Dalits
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This Book Explores The History Of Practice Of Untouchability And Commission Of Atrocities On The Scheduled Casted And Scheduled Tribes; Analyses The Origin Of Caste Disabilities Among Other Problems.
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170228851
Category : Dalits
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This Book Explores The History Of Practice Of Untouchability And Commission Of Atrocities On The Scheduled Casted And Scheduled Tribes; Analyses The Origin Of Caste Disabilities Among Other Problems.
Multiple Secularities Beyond the West
Author: Marian Burchardt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.
Indian Critiques of Gandhi
Author: Harold Coward
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi's contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi's ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi's contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi's ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.
Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability
Author: Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231136020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"For years Ambedkar battled alone against the Indian political establishment, including Gandhi, who resisted his attempt to formalize and codify a separate identity for the Dalits. Nonetheless, he became law minister in the first government of independent India and, more important, was elected chairman of the committee which drafted the Indian Constitution. Here he modified Gandhian attempts to influence the Indian polity. He then distanced himself from politics and sought solace in Buddhism, to which he converted in 1956, a few months before his death." "Jaffrelot focuses on Ambedkar's three key roles: as social theorist, as statesman and politician, and as an advocate of conversion to Buddhism as an escape route for India's Dalits. In each case he pioneered new strategies that proved effective in his lifetime and still resonate today."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231136020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"For years Ambedkar battled alone against the Indian political establishment, including Gandhi, who resisted his attempt to formalize and codify a separate identity for the Dalits. Nonetheless, he became law minister in the first government of independent India and, more important, was elected chairman of the committee which drafted the Indian Constitution. Here he modified Gandhian attempts to influence the Indian polity. He then distanced himself from politics and sought solace in Buddhism, to which he converted in 1956, a few months before his death." "Jaffrelot focuses on Ambedkar's three key roles: as social theorist, as statesman and politician, and as an advocate of conversion to Buddhism as an escape route for India's Dalits. In each case he pioneered new strategies that proved effective in his lifetime and still resonate today."--BOOK JACKET.
The Story of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Author: Sushmita Dutta
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
ISBN: 9359047775
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Architect of Equality and Justice" is a compelling biography that delves into the life and achievements of an iconic figure who reshaped the socio-political landscape of India. Born into a marginalized community, Bhimrao Ambedkar's journey from facing caste-based discrimination to becoming the chief architect of the Indian Constitution is a testament to his indomitable spirit. This book meticulously traces Ambedkar's early struggles, academic brilliance, and transformative years abroad, which fueled his determination to combat social injustices. As a fierce advocate for the oppressed, he championed the eradication of untouchability, spearheaded movements for social reform, and laid the groundwork for India's inclusive democracy. The narrative highlights Ambedkar's pivotal role in drafting the Indian Constitution, emphasizing his commitment to securing fundamental rights and affirmative action for marginalized communities. His courageous conversion to Buddhism, seeking empowerment beyond the confines of caste, adds depth to his multifaceted persona. Through vivid storytelling, "Architect of Equality and Justice" illuminates Ambedkar's enduring legacy as a beacon of hope and an agent of change. This biography is an essential read for anyone seeking insights into the life of a visionary leader who relentlessly strived for a just and equitable society.
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
ISBN: 9359047775
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: Architect of Equality and Justice" is a compelling biography that delves into the life and achievements of an iconic figure who reshaped the socio-political landscape of India. Born into a marginalized community, Bhimrao Ambedkar's journey from facing caste-based discrimination to becoming the chief architect of the Indian Constitution is a testament to his indomitable spirit. This book meticulously traces Ambedkar's early struggles, academic brilliance, and transformative years abroad, which fueled his determination to combat social injustices. As a fierce advocate for the oppressed, he championed the eradication of untouchability, spearheaded movements for social reform, and laid the groundwork for India's inclusive democracy. The narrative highlights Ambedkar's pivotal role in drafting the Indian Constitution, emphasizing his commitment to securing fundamental rights and affirmative action for marginalized communities. His courageous conversion to Buddhism, seeking empowerment beyond the confines of caste, adds depth to his multifaceted persona. Through vivid storytelling, "Architect of Equality and Justice" illuminates Ambedkar's enduring legacy as a beacon of hope and an agent of change. This biography is an essential read for anyone seeking insights into the life of a visionary leader who relentlessly strived for a just and equitable society.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture
Author: Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139825461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.