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041			_aEnglish
082			_a820 A52
100			_aAmbedkar, B. R. _eAutho _9331
245		0	_aAnnihilation of caste: the annotated critical edition
260			_aNew Delhi: _bNavayana, _c2021.
300			_a406p.; 21cms.
500			_aAnnihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition Annihilation of Caste is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. In 1936, a Hindu reformist group invited Dr B.R. Ambedkar to deliver its annual lecture. When it read an advance copy of the text of the speech, the group found the contents "unbearable" and rescinded its invitation. Ambedkar published the text on his own. It offers a scholarly critique of the Vedas and shastras-scriptures the Hindus regard as sacred, scriptures that sanction the worlds most hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The worlds best known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. This extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste is introduced by Arundhati Roy. Her introduction, The Doctor and the Saint, looks at the ways in which caste plays out in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate into the present day. It takes us to the beginning of Gandhis political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. It tracks Ambedkars emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkars anticaste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, there cannot be any other in India.
650			_asectarianism and obscurantism _95533
650			_aPolitical struggle beset _95534
650			_aNational movement _95535
942			_cBK
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