![]() ![]() ![]() Read in this context, the book provides an overview of the problem of caste in India. This volume posits Ambedkar?s views on caste vis-?-vis Mahatma Gandhi?s ?Harijans? and presents the debate that the two luminaries engaged in. Radically against the Brahmanical caste system and Hinduism, it argued for a society based on equal opportunities for all. These cases and tragic examples hurt and wound the constitutional and democratic values that Ambedkar tried to uphold and protect. Ambedkar conceptualized few such cases in his ‘Annihilation of Caste’ in 1935 itself. A lecture that was never permitted to be given because of its incendiary nature, ?Annihilation of Caste? was self-published and immediately became the eye of a storm. The similar cases of caste violence have been witnessing every year. ![]() Ambedkar One of the most inflammatory writings of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, ?Annihilation of Caste? remains a strident indictment of the Indian society and its social stratification where the lowest segment was treated as untouchable. A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society.?B.R. ![]()
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