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This book is a classic and certainly a wonderful book for people to read regardless of whether or not they have anything to do with India. It's a wonderful analysis of caste and class that can help people to think about the ways in which structural inequality emerges and gets sustained. The book has been available for free online and can b read in its entirety here ( for excellent critiques of Roy's version).
Timeless. A study in the effectiveness of keeping an argument laser focused on the cause rather than symptoms. Ambedkar systematically and directly attacks the origin and life sustaining forces of caste in India and Hinduism. His analysis clearly demonstrates the futility of caste reform efforts and clearly makes the case for caste abolition as the only viable solution to transcending caste.
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Never realised a social issue could be analysed with so much Logic and Reasoning! His earlier book of 'Castes in India' already prepped me to the depth he was operating at.
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man was dropping banger after banger throughout his career
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Not only is this the definitive work on caste, it is also scathing and expertly written. Based on the appendices where he owns Gandhi with facts and logic, Ambedkar would’ve killed it on Twitter.
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honestly a must read for anyone to understand Indian religious, political and social history and systems better. lots to think over with the critiques in caste, the context with conflicts between Ambedkar and Gandhi - the footnotes do an essential job in placing each statement within historical context