Annihilation of caste : the annotated critical edition
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Navayana 1936Description: 415pISBN:- 9788189059675
- 305.51220954 AMB
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Book | Plaksha University Library | Social Science | 305.51220954 AMB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 000763 |
“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste
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
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