![]() ![]() What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India. Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: This edition is truly a remarkable achievement. Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University A robust edition of an under-appreciated classic. She manages to convey an intimate and deeply felt sensitivity to the history that produced Annihilation of Caste. After reviewing the speech's controversiality, conference organizers revoked Ambedkar's invitation. ![]() He wrote Annihilation of Caste for the 1936 meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. Ambedkar, an Indian academic turned politician. Roy’s essay has the sharp political thrust one has come to expect from her Uma Chakravarti, author of Everyday Lives, Everyday HistorieĪrundhati Roy’s ‘The Doctor and the Saint’ works both at an emotive and an argumentative level. Annihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written in 1936 by B. Marvellous writing with conceptual clarity and political understanding – something the world should know about. No Hindu who prizes his faith above life itself can afford to underrate the importance of this indictment. ![]()
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