What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India. He begins his discussion of caste by canvassing other representative views of caste and by identifying what they regarded as peculiarities of Caste (CI, 7). Ambedkar’s aim in, Castes in India, is to get clearer on the other essential features of caste, their origin and function. Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: He also thinks that caste is much more than this. This edition is truly a remarkable achievement. Keywords caste, Ambedkar, communists, class, annihilation Introduction In a letter dated 12 December 1935, the secretary of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Abolition of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist group organisation based in Lahore, invited B. Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University A robust edition of an under-appreciated classic. Untouchability is not a simple matter, Ambedkar said in a speech in 1927. She manages to convey an intimate and deeply felt sensitivity to the history that produced Annihilation of Caste. In Ambedkar’s day, just as in present-day India, murders of lower castes by higher castes were common. Roy’s essay has the sharp political thrust one has come to expect from her Uma Chakravarti, author of Everyday Lives, Everyday HistorieĪrundhati Roy’s ‘The Doctor and the Saint’ works both at an emotive and an argumentative level. Marvellous writing with conceptual clarity and political understanding – something the world should know about. No Hindu who prizes his faith above life itself can afford to underrate the importance of this indictment.
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