Several books have been written about Ambedkar before. Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, written by an American scholar on India, concentrates on the social activist side of Ambedkar. His efforts to bring social justice to the Dalits is the main focus of the book. Ambedkar was himself born in a Dalit family, belonging to the Mahar community. Orthodox Hindus considered them untouchables, and Ambedkar had to undergo many humiliations because of this. He decided that the Dalits had to be brought out of the Hindu society to free them. He often clashed with Gandhiji on this issue. While Gandhiji also worked against untouchability, he worked to integrate the untouchables, whom he called Harijans, into the mainstream Hindu community and just get rid of the evil practice of untouchability. While Gandhiji and other nationalists sought to free the country from British rule, Ambedkar concentrated on efforts to free the marginalized communities from orthodox oppression. He wanted to create a society that would deliver justice to these communities and provide them with equal opportunities to live life with dignity and respect. He wanted to erase all the effects of the centuries of indignities they had suffered. In Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, the author traces Ambedkar s life, from his childhood, to his struggles to overcome the hurdles placed in his path by the caste system, to his rise as one of the most highly respected leaders of the country

Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India

GAIL OMVEDT

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Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India [Paperback]

Penguin

Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography

Politics & Social Sciences

Vasant Moon

Eleanor Zelliot

Sociology

Sage Publications

Several books have been written about Ambedkar before. Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, written by an American scholar on India, concentrates on the social activist side of Ambedkar.  His efforts to bring social justice to the Dalits is the main focus of the book.  Ambedkar was himself born in a Dalit family, belonging to the Mahar community. Orthodox Hindus considered them untouchables, and Ambedkar had to undergo many humiliations because of this. He decided that the Dalits had to be brought out of the Hindu society to free them.  He often clashed with Gandhiji on this issue. While Gandhiji also worked against untouchability, he worked to integrate the untouchables, whom he called Harijans, into the mainstream Hindu community and just get rid of the evil practice of untouchability.  While Gandhiji and other nationalists sought to free the country from British rule, Ambedkar concentrated on efforts to free the marginalized communities from orthodox oppression.  He wanted to create a society that would deliver justice to these communities and provide them with equal opportunities to live life with dignity and respect. He wanted to erase all the effects of the centuries of indignities they had suffered.  In Ambedkar: Towards An Enlightened India, the author traces Ambedkar s life, from his childhood, to his struggles to overcome the hurdles placed in his path by the caste system, to his rise as one of the most highly respected leaders of the country

Ambedkar

History

Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India | Gail Omvedt

Taylor and Francis Books

Dalit Visions: The Anti-Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity, Rev. Edition, Pa

Social Sciences

Orient Longman

Understanding Caste approaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation it shows how even secular minds remain imprisoned within the Brahmanical vision.\nIt looks at the alternative traditions nurtured within Dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looking at Indian society and history. Written in a lucid and readable style, the author elucidates how Dalit politics and the Dalit vision require going beyond even the term Dalit and how it has contributed to being symbolic of the most oppressed and exploited sections within the graded hierarchies of caste.\nAlongside the ascendance of Hinduism, the book traces the invasive trends of resistance and revolt in the tenets of Buddhism and radical bhakti, in the anti-patriarchal stands of early feminists, in the pervasive radicalism of the Dalit activists from Phule and Periyar, Ramabai and Tarabai, to Kabir, Tukaram and Ambedkar, even for that matter Buddha himself.\nThis book brings to the reader the failures and triumphs of the many efforts that have aimed to dissolve the oppressive facets of Hinduism and its caste ideology, and continue to organise in newer ways for 'another' possible world where equality and human freedom reign supreme. It also makes visible the logic of Dalit politics and the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, as a major alternative to the rise of Hindutva. This important and essential reading will be an invaluable primer on the subject to students of Dalit and caste studies and politics.\nThis revised edition has a new and comprehensive Index.

Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond

Orient Black Swan

Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals

Navayana

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