{"product_id":"the-ambedkar-gandhi-debate-bindu-puri-9789811686856","title":"The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: On Identity, Community and Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi. At one level, this debate was about a set of different but interconnected issues: caste and social hierarchies, untouchability, Hinduism, conversion, temple entry, and political separatism. The introduction to this book provides a brief overview of the engagements and conflicts in Gandhi and Ambedkar's central arguments. However, at another level, this book argues that the debate can be philosophically re-interpreted as raising their differences on the following issues: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe nature of the self, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe relationship between the individual self and the community, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe appropriate relationship between the constitutive encumbrances of the self and a conception of justice, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe relationship between memory, tradition, and self-identity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbedkar and Gandhi's contrary conceptions of the self, history, itihaas, community and justice unpack incommensurable world views. These can be properly articulated only as very different answers to questions about the relationship between the present and the past. This book raises these questions and also establishes the link between the Ambedkar--Gandhi debate in the early 20th century and its re-interpretation as it resonates in the imagination and writing of marginalized social groups in the present times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bindu Puri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9811686858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789811686856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Bindu Puri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44058821918975,"sku":"9789811686856","price":119.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6812ad4-4507-4d4b-84f7-070a0d3b240e.jpg?v=1685054708","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ambedkar-gandhi-debate-bindu-puri-9789811686856","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}