Ambedkar, pioneered new strategies, philosophically and practically, which continue to prove effective to India's Untouchable community. This text focuses on his key roles as statesman, politician, social theorist and activist.
"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. Here, Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propos…
"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. Here, Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propo…
"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. Here, Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propos…
"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. Here, Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propos…
Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned aroun…
Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided by scholars who have turned aroun…
I begin this project by introducing the Dalits, the so-called untouchables, of India. I then scrutinize their predicament through two Christian moral imperative lenses, human dignity and social visibility. In the first Chapter, I engage the first context of my dissertation: the …
"Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay's population grew twenty-fold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with various…