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Beef, brahmins, and broken men : an annotated critical selection from the Untouchables, who were they and why they became untouchables? by Ambedkar, B. R. ;Ilaiah, Kancha is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beef, brahmins, and broken men : an annotated critical selection from the Untouchables, who were they and why they became untouchables? about?
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 trace the origin of the Dalit caste. __Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men__ is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive. Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propose a genealogy of Untouchability. He contends that modern-day Dalits are descendants of those Buddhists who were fenced out of caste society and rendered Untouchable by a resurgent Brahminism since the fourth century BCE. The Brahmins, whose Vedic cult originally involved the sacrifice of cows, adapted Buddhist ahimsa and vegetarianism to stigmatize outcaste Buddhists who were consumers of beef. The outcastes were soon relegated to the lowliest of occupations and prohibited from participation in civic life. To unearth this lost history, Ambedkar undertakes a forensic examination of a wide range of Brahminic literature. Heavily annotated with an emphasis on
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- Author
- Ambedkar, B. R. ;Ilaiah, Kancha
- Publisher
- Navayana ; Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231195843
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Political Science