Dr. Ambedkar And Untouchability: Fighting The Indian Caste System,9780231136020

Dr. Ambedkar And Untouchability: Fighting The Indian Caste System

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780231136020
ISBN10: 0231136021
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-03-01
Publisher(s): COLUMBIA UNIV PRESS
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Summary

B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) rose from a community of untouchables to become a major figure in modern Indian history. He was the first Dalit, or low-caste Hindu, ever to be formally educated, studying in the United States and Britain, where he gained his Ph.D. Despite his achievements he remained true to his background and fought for the Dalits throughout his life. He is universally regarded as India's first and foremost Dalit leader.

Author Biography

Christophe Jaffrelot is director of CERI (the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po in Paris

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Maps
xi
Introduction: The First Dalit Leader of India 1(7)
Maharashtra between Social Reform and anti-Brahmin Mobilisation
8(11)
Maharashtra and its socio-political system
8(3)
The questioning of the social order during the nineteenth century
11(8)
Ambedkar: Son of a Mahar Soldier
19(12)
Mahars, first of the last
20(6)
The family environment: the army and Western education under princely patronage
26(5)
Analysing and Ethnicising Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively
31(21)
Inventing a golden age for the lower castes: the prestige of autochthony
38(4)
How to resist Sanskritisation?
42(10)
In the Political Arena, against Gandhi
52(22)
Reserved seats or separate electorates?
53(6)
Arm wrestling with Gandhi and the Poona Pact
59(12)
Ambedkar and the Arya Samaj
71(3)
Searching for an Electoral Strategy
74(17)
The ILP, or how to defend workers without being a Marxist
74(6)
The Scheduled Castes' Federation and caste politics
80(4)
From the SCF to the RPI---a return to the ILP?
84(7)
Opposition or Collaboration? Ambedkar's Pragmatism and Resilience
91(15)
The British---objective allies?
91(7)
Ambedkar, a Dalit leader in the establishment of post-1947 India
98(8)
Shaping the Indian Constitution
106(13)
The `False Manu'?
106(2)
The revenge on Gandhi of a westernised democrat
108(6)
The Hindu Code Bill and the break with Nehru
114(5)
The `Solution' of Conversion
119(24)
Conversion, a strategy of social emancipation?
120(11)
The choice of Buddhism as an egalitarian creed
131(12)
The Impact and Relevance of Ambedkar Today
143(18)
The target of Gandhians and Hindu nationalists
144(2)
Collaborator with the British and gravedigger of social reform?
146(4)
The political legacy of Ambedkar: posterity or treason?
150(11)
Conclusion 161(6)
Notes 167(31)
Select Bibliography 198(5)
Index 203

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