Excellent collection of essays on Dalits, issues in Indian society

Religious Rebels in the Punjab: The Ad Dharm Challenge to Caste

S. Anand

Navayana

Dalits in Dravidian Land Frontline Reports on Anti-Dalit Violence in Tamil Nadu (1995-2004)

S. Viswanathan

Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, this book has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author’s life has been threatened. Jha argues against the historical sanctity of the cow in India, in an illuminating response to the prevailing attitudes about beef that have been fiercely supported by the current Hindu right-wing government and the fundamentalist groups backing it.

Myth of the Holy Cow

D.N. Jha

<p>What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891 1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10, in Baroda after his return from Columbia University, and while traveling. Battling odds, Ambedkar drafted the Constitution of India and eventually embraced Buddhism. Experiences similar to Ambedkar's continue to haunt a majority of India's 170 million dalits. They are still What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891 1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10, in Baroda after his return from Columbia University, and while traveling. <br><br> Battling odds, Ambedkar drafted the Constitution of India and eventually embraced Buddhism. Experiences similar to Ambedkar's continue to haunt a majority of India's 170 million dalits. They are still denied water, shelter and the basic dignities of life. In this ground-breaking work, Pardhan-Gond artists Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam interweave historical events like the Mahad satyagraha with contemporary incidents. Defying conventional grammar, they infuse fresh energy into the graphic idiom through their magical art mounted on an epic scale.</p>

Bhimayana: Experiences Of Untouchability

Srividya Natarajan

In Pursuit of Ambedkar: A Memoir (With DVD of One-Hour Documentary Feature)

Bhagwan Das

Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals

GAIL OMVEDT

Jotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Slavery (Gulamgiri) a scathing and witty attack on Brahmanism and the slavery of India s lower castes that it engendered. Unlike Indian nationalists, Phule (1827-1890) saw the British as people who could tame the local elite the Brahmans who wielded power simply on the basis of birth. Inspired by Thomas Paine s Rights of Man and the ideals of Enlightenment philosophers, Phule mounted a critique of the Vedas as idle fantasies of the Brahman mind. With the objective of liberating the Sudras and Atisudras, he founded the Satyashodak Samaj (Society of Truthseekers).  Phule dedicated Slavery to the good people of the United States as a token of admiration for their sublime, disinterested and self-sacrificing devotion in the cause of Negro Slavery. Written in the form of a dialogue between Dhondiba and Jotiba reminiscent of Buddha s Suttas, of Socrates dialogues Slavery traces the history of Brahman domination in India, and examines the motives for and objectives of the cruel and inhuman laws framed by the Brahmans.  This revolutionary text remains relevant today, and given Phule s rather graphic imagination lends itself almost naturally to graphic art. Srividya Natarajan and Aparajita Ninan also weave in the story of Savitribai, Jotiba s wife and partner in his struggles, who started a school for girls in Pune in 1848, despite social opprobrium.  This is perhaps the first time that a historical work of nonfiction has been interpreted as a graphic book in India.

A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule's Fight for Liberty

The Strength of Our Wrists: Three Plays

Premanand Gajvee

Annihilation 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 gandhi's 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.

Navayana Annihilation Of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

B.R Ambedkar

The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2014] JEREMY SEABROOK

Jeremy Seabrook

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