Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables

B.R. Ambedkar with Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (Contributor)

424 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
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This book suits the reader who wants a slow, scholarly excavation of how a marginalized group was historically constructed through religious and dietary stigma and who welcomes dense annotation and reflective argument more than narrative pace.

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One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to ...

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