Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India
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Author: Gail Omvedt
9780143440215 | PB | pp. 168 | 2004 | Penguin Books
Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India describes with empathy the lifelong efforts of a national leader whose thought remains key to understanding the paradoxes of twenty-first-century India.
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Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India describes with empathy the lifelong efforts of a national leader whose thought remains key to understanding the paradoxes of twenty-first-century India.
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If Gandhi was Bapu, the father of a society in which he tried to inject equality while maintaining the hindu framework, Ambedkar was baba to his people and the great liberator from that framework. Born in 1891 into an untouchable family, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was witness to all the decisive phases of India’s Freedom Movement. While the well-known elite nationalists like Gandhi and Nehru led the struggle for political freedom from British Colonial Rule, Ambedkar fought a correlated but different struggle, one for the liberation of the most oppressed sections of Indian society. Ambedkar’s nationalism focused on the building of a nation, on the creation of social equality and cultural integration in a society held enslaved for centuries by the unique tyrannies of caste and varna ideologies. His would be an enlightened India based on the values of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In this concise Biography, Gail Omvedt, A long-time researcher of dalit politics and culture, presents with empathy Ambedkar’s struggle to become educated, overcome the stigma of untouchability and pursue his higher studies abroad. She portrays how he gradually rose to become a lawyer of international repute, a founder of a new order of Buddhism and a framer of India’s constitution. Ambedkar: Towards An enlightened India puts the man and his times in context and explains to a new generation of readers how he became a national and dalit leader and an icon of the dispossessed.
| Author: | Gail Omvedt |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780143440215 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 168 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
"Born in Minneapolis, USA, Gail Omvedt is an Indian citizen. She has an MA and Ph.D in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been living in India since 1978, settled in Kasegaon Village in southern Maharashtra, with her husband, Bharat Patankar, and other members of an Indian joint family. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Among her numerous books focusing on social and economic issues are Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (2003), Dalit Visions (1995), Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994), Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India (1993) and Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Maharashtra (1966). She has also collaborated with Bharat Patnakar in translations from the Marathi into English."
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