Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System by Jaffrelot, Christophe

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231136020)

Vendor: Christophe Jaffrelot
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System by Jaffrelot, Christophe

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System

$75.00
Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System by Jaffrelot, Christophe

Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System

$75.00
Format: Hardcover
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Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) rose from a community of "untouchables," to become a major figure in modern Indian history. Christophe Jaffrelot's biography reconsiders Dr. Ambedkar's life and thought and his unique combination of pragmatism and idealism. Establishing himself as a scholar, activist, journalist, and educator, Ambedkar ultimately found himself immersed in Indian politics and helped to draft the nation's constitution as law minister in Nehru's first cabinet. Ambedkar's ideas remain an inspiration to India's Dalit community.

Author: Christophe Jaffrelot
ISBN-10: 0231136021
ISBN-13: 9780231136020
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2005
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.80w x 0.70d
By Christophe Jaffrelot
By Christophe Jaffrelot
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Christophe Jaffrelot is director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). He is the author of India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Caste in North India and The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, which the New York Review of Books hailed as "a scholarly tour de force."

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