Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beef, Brahmins, and Broken MenCondition: NewEAN: 9780231195850ISBN: 9780231195850Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/07/2020Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: B. R. AmbedkarContributor: Kancha Ilaiah (Introduction by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: An Annotated Critical Selection from The UntouchablesISBN-10: 0231195850Description: 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 putting Ambedkar and recent scholarship into conversation, Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men assumes urgency as India witnesses unprecedented violence against Dalits and Muslims in the name of cow protection.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics, History, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
Title: Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
EAN: 9780231195850
ISBN: 9780231195850
Release Date: 04/07/2020
Release Year: 2020
Contributor: Kancha Ilaiah (Introduction by)
Subtitle: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables
ISBN-10: 0231195850
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men : an Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Social, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Asia / India & South Asia, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
