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Biografisk notat
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an "Untouchable" family of modest means. One of India's most radical thinkers, he transformed the social and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. He was a prolific writer who oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India's first Law Minister. In 1935, he publicly declared that though he was born a Hindu, he would not die as one. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism, a few months before his death in 1956.Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her recent political writings include Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic, and Capitalism: A Ghost Story.
S. Anand is the publisher of Navayana, an independent press in New Delhi. He is the coauthor of Ambedkar: The Fight for Justice, a graphic biography, and has annotated this edition of Annihilation of Caste.
<i>Annihilation of Caste</i> has to be read ... No Hindu who prizes his faith above life itself can afford to underrate the importance of this indictment.
- M.K. Gandhi,
Marvellous writing with conceptual clarity and political understanding - something the world should know about. . . Roy's essay has the sharp political thrust one has come to expect from her
Uma Chakravarti, author of Everyday Lives, Everyday Historie
Arundhati Roy's 'The Doctor and the Saint' works both at an emotive and an argumentative level. She manages to convey an intimate and deeply felt sensitivity to the history that produced <i>Annihilation of Caste</i>... A robust edition of an under-appreciated classic.
Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University
This edition is truly a remarkable achievement.
Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability:
What the <i>Communist Manifesto </i>is to the capitalist world, <i>Annihilation of Caste</i> is to India.
- Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste,
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an "Untouchable" family of modest means. One of India's most radical thinkers, he transformed the social and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. He was a prolific writer who oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India's first Law Minister. In 1935, he publicly declared that though he was born a Hindu, he would not die as one. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism, a few months before his death in 1956.Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her recent political writings include Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic, and Capitalism: A Ghost Story.
S. Anand is the publisher of Navayana, an independent press in New Delhi. He is the coauthor of Ambedkar: The Fight for Justice, a graphic biography, and has annotated this edition of Annihilation of Caste.