The book sets out a discourse on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s vast horizon of knowledge production. Through the essays in the book, the author has tried to deconstruct the reductionist approach adopted by mainstream academia, intelligentsia, and the Indian media to understand Ambedkar. It has recorded his erasures from various academic texts on sociology, history, literature, and creative fields like feature films. Juxtaposing this process of reductionism and erasure of Ambedkar, the book probes how he has been received and appreciated by international institutions and academicians; how, on the one hand, they have engaged with his writings on various aspects of society, polity, democracy, and social justice, and on the other, how they have hailed his academics in their writings. Further, the book maps the original and unique theoretical and philosophical insights provided by Babasaheb on Hindu social order with the place of an individual, varna, the genesis of caste, graded inequality, and the annihilation of caste, etc. Additionally, taking clues from the essential elements of social justice delineated by Plato and Rawls.
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This book has tried to search for the aspects of social justice in Ambedkar’s thoughts.

Product details

ISBN
9789360805128
Published
2024-09-30
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Height
230 mm
Width
160 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
144

Author

Biographical note

Vivek Kumar is a Professor of Sociology and a former Chairperson of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (2018-2023), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he earned his doctorate.