Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Fighting the Indian Caste System

Christophe Jaffrelot

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March, 2005
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13602-0
$50.00 / £34.50

Chapter 1: Maharashtra, between social reform and anti-brahmin mobilization

Chapter 2: Ambedkar, son of a Mahar soldier

Chapter 3: Analysing and ethnicizing caste (to eradicate it more effectively)

Chapter 4: In the political arena, against Gandhi

Chapter 5: In quest of an electoral strategy

Chapter 6: To oppose or to collaborate?: Ambedkar's pragmatism and resilience

Chapter 7: Shaping the Indian constitution

Chapter 8: The "solution" of conversion

Chapter 9: Impact and relevance of Ambedkar today

Conclusion

Chronology

Related Subjects

• South Asian Studies

Series

• CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies

About the Author

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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