Invoking Ambedkar - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9380607903 ISBN 13: 9789380607900

Verlag: PRIMUS BOOKS, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

It hardly needs to be emphasized that besides being a person with a remarkable vision, B.R. Ambedkar was intimately involved with many factors that created the basis of what India is today. At the same time, one cannot overlook Ambedkar's 'past' and the fact that he grew up facing discrimination and being made to sit on the floor outside the classroom as a child, as he was a Dalit. Even today, millions of Dalit children face similar discrimination in their everyday life. Such incidents are distinct reminders of the continuing relevance of Ambedkar and the uncivil and barbaric nature of India's 'civil' society. This book brings together a wide variety of scholarly ideas: the way 'Aryans' are perceived in Dalit historical thinking; seeing the problem of Dalit liberation through the lenses of Adam Smith; the election of the Constituent Assembly (1946) with which Ambedkar was intimately involved, and which scripted India's Constitution; the approach of Gandhi and Ambedkar to the process of planning and India's economic development; and Ambedkar's attitude to Marx and Buddha, as well as Dalit Christianity. This book also includes a comparative study of Ambedkar and some of his contemporaries like Charan Singh and Ram Manohar Lohia in Uttar Pradesh.

Biografía del autor:

Biswamoy Pati is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Among his many publications on diverse aspects of colonial/postcolonial Indian history, are two collections published by Primus Books: The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (coedited with Mark Harrison, 2011) and India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism (coedited with Waltraud Ernst, 2010).

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• Verlag: PRIMUS BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9380607903
• ISBN 13: 9789380607900
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
• Herausgeber: Pati Biswamoy