...Gail Omvedt Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1,1990. Ambedkar and Dalit Labor Radicalism: Maharashtra, 1936-1942 Gail Omvedt [Note by Barbara Joshi: The following article is an ex- amples of the gulf that separated...

...Shruti Kapila Abstract In focusing primarily on B. R. Ambedkar, this essay will reconstruct and interpret the work on hostility and antagonism that was central to his political thought and writings. As a thinker, Ambedkar remained singular in taking account of the full and potential measure...

.... R. Ambedkar's thought, whereby conversion's core is an interior psychic process of changing principles to see the world differently, I suggest that Meenakshipuram's event may more appropriately be framed by E. V. Ramasami's [EVR] thought, whereby conversion's core is an exterior somatic process...

.... Ambedkar. Patil advances a particular reading of Phule-Ambedkarism to sharpen his critique of orthodox Marxism and develop a philosophy that could undergird revolutionary egalitarian change in India. The article focuses on two key theoretical insights elaborated by Patil and his reading of Phule...

... efforts yielded positive results. One of Maharashtra, where the late Untouchable leader Dr. devadasi named Shivubai responded to the call and Ambedkar developed one of the most influential wrote a very long letter explaining the miserable life of movements of resistance and reform. Their study...

... addressed nearly a century ago Rajan remain somewhat unconvinced about such by the Dalit thinker B. R. Ambedkar, who arrived 380 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 33:3 • 2013 at Columbia University for doctoral studies in July A themed...

....) Dimensions of Social Life. Yagnik , Achyut , and Anil Bhatt, “The Anti-Dalit Agitation of Gujarat”, South Asia Bulletin , Vol. IV , No. 1 , Spring 1984 . Zelliot , Eleanor , “Gandhi and Ambedkar-A Study in Leadership”, in Mahar, J. Michael (Ed.), The Untouchables in Contemporary India...

.... Although not their explicit orientation, all four essays in this special section on the Past for Pakistan suggest what remain of the most disturbing kinds, for which I applaud them. I start with Shruti Kapila in part because her essay on B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Dalit intellectual and politician, titled...

...Christophe Jaffrelot © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India: No Longer Just a Dalit Party?l Christophe Jaffielot From the 1930s to the 1950s, Dr. Ambedkar evolved From “Assertiveness...

.... Katzenstein , Mary Fainsod , 1979 . Ethnicity and Equality: The Shiv Sena Party and Preferential Policies in Bombay (Ithaca: Cornell University Press). Keer , Dhananjay , 1971 . Dr. Ambedkar: Life and Mission (Bombay: Popular Prakashan). Kumar , Krishna , 1996 . Learning From Conflict...

... that the Rather, its social roots were in the Ambedkar-led Dalit low-ranked castes could claim an oral tradition of their own. movement and other non-Brahman movements in Maha• There are indications that such a cultural tradition is very rashtra, and its...

... constitutionalist B. R. Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism along with some half million of his followers in 1956, this article addresses the ways in which Buddhism came to be simultaneously seen as a “Hindu sect” and central to Hindu nationalist projects. It does so through a detailed analysis of the planning...

... in or- party led by Prakash Ambedkar, Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s der to portray itself a better champion of the Hindu cause. son. Dalit youth is highly critical of the Congress as it more Riots began to occur all over Maharashtra, in places like often favors upper castes while paying lip service...

... as others do, to have access to what they enjoy, whether of revolutionary Marxist intellectuals. On a much larger in the village space, in the sphere of power, in the pro- scale, the influence of Ambedkar, whose writings have fessions, or in the religious world - these are the many been extensively...

... Buddhism. In a sense, The Cracked Mirror performs a breaking away that is as poignant and as fraught Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai have written a as Ambedkar’s late conversion to Buddhism. If the book that needs to be reread over time. In particu...

...Figure 17. Swearing in of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Buddhavanam stupa. Photograph by the author. ...

..., i.e., warriors who protected the Hindu samaj in the an- 61 cient period against all calamities, aggressions and twist to Ambedkar’s decision to adopt Buddhism, it shocks. The Hindu jati can become strong only...

... East • 33:3 • 2013 at Columbia University for doctoral studies in July A themed section of a forthcoming issue of 1913. Indeed, the theme of this book forum was this journal will address the question of subaltern chosen to commemorate the Ambedkar...

... if the question of necessary state managers, however, had to perform their transformation of social conditions were ignored. governance and transformational agenda under a This well-­known passage from B. R. Ambedkar’s system of representative democracy with a univer...