Dr.Ambedkar and Untouchability Analysing and Fighting Caste

includes index and biblioraphy

The First Dalit Leader of India Maharashtra between Social Reform and anti-Brahmin Mobilisation Maharashtra and its socio-political system The questioning of the social order during the nineteenth century Ambedkar: Son of a Mahar Soldier Mahars, first of the last Tlie family environment: the army and Western education under princely patronage Analysing and Ethnicising Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively Inventing a golden age for the lower castes: the prestige of autochthony How to resist Sanskritisation? In the Political Arena, against Gandhi Reserved seats or separate electorates`? Arm wrestling with Gandhi and the Poona Pact Ambedkar and the Arya Samaj Searching for an Electoral Strategy The ILP, or how to defend workers without being a Marxist The Scheduled Castes` Federation and caste politics From the SCF to the RPI¿a return to the ILP? Opposition or Collaboration? Ambedkar`s Pragmatism and Resilience The British¿objective allies`? Ambedkar, a Dalit leader in the establishment ofpost-1947 India Shaping the Indian Constitution The `False Manu`1 The revenge on Gandhi of a westernised democrat The Hindu Code Bill and the break with Nehru The`Solution`of Conversion Conversion, a strategy of social emancipation? ~Die choice of Buddhism as an egalitarian creed The Impact and Relevance of Ambedkar Today 77ic target of Gandhians and Hindu nationalists Collaborator with the British and gravedigger of social reform? Tlie political legacy of Ambedkar: posterity or treason?