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“Annihilation of Caste has to be read ... No Hindu who prizes his faith above life itself can afford to underrate the importance of this indictment.” —M.K. Gandhi“What Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to caste India. Arundhati Roy’s introduction is expansive and excellent. S. Anand’s annotations have style and perfection.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders & India’s Hidden Apartheid“For the 1930s, Annihilation of Caste was a case of marvellous writing with conceptual clarity and political understanding – something the world should know about. The annotations illumine the whole book. Roy’s essay has the sharp political thrust one has come to expect from her.” —Uma Chakravarti, author of Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of ‘Ancient’ India and Pandita Ramabai: A Life and a Time “Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Doctor and the Saint’ manages to convey an intimate and deeply felt sensitivity to the history that produced Annihilation of Caste. The annotations do an excellent job of providing supplementary information, corroboration and relevant citations ... A robust edition of an under-appreciated classic.” —Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi University“S. Anand’s annotations are very thorough and on the whole based on first-rate and current scholarship on South Asia and elsewhere ... Arundhati Roy’s essay is punchy, eye-opening and provocative ... There is very little left of the saintly stature of the Mahatma once Roy is done with him, while Ambedkar, quite rightly, is left standing as the man in full control of his senses and his very considerable intellect.” —Thomas Blom Hansen, Director, Stanford’s Center for South Asia“This annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste was long overdue ... The copious footnotes give the reader a sense of direction and all the additional information needed for making sense of the text – including the translation of the Sanskrit shlokas Ambedkar used to document his analysis. This edition is truly a remarkable achievement.” —Christophe Jaffrelot, author of Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste“Those who have read Annihilation of Caste many times before will still read this work for the sake of the annotations and reference-based clarifications of Ambedkar’s thoughts. This edition will foster a more critical engagement among readers.” —Ayyathurai Gajendran, anthropologist
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About the Author
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an “Untouchable” family of modest means. One of India’s most radical thinkers, he transformed the social and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. He was a prolific writer who oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India’s first Law Minister. In 1935, he publicly declared that though he was born a Hindu, he would not die as one. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism, a few months before his death in 1956. Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The God of Small Things. Her recent political writings include Listening to Grasshoppers, Broken Republic, and Capitalism: A Ghost Story. S. Anand is the publisher of Navayana, an independent press in New Delhi. He is the coauthor of Ambedkar: The Fight for Justice, a graphic biography, and has annotated this edition of Annihilation of Caste.
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Product details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Verso; Annotated, Critical edition (February 16, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1784783528
ISBN-13: 978-1784783525
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
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A must read on the backdrop of the current social and political happenings in India. The question raised over a hundred and fifty years ago about what should be a priority – political independence or social reform – appears to have been answered. The leaders chose independence and then forgot or chose to forget about social reform. The result – a country roiled by ‘reservations’ in educational institutions and in jobs – but with no real dignity for those for whom it was meant.Dr. Ambedkar’s words are as true today as they were when they were first written. Some interesting tidbits for those who are trying to decide whether to make an investment in reading this book, because investment it is – a very scholarly book with a lot of references that need to be read to obtain the full import of what Dr. Ambedkard had to say:1. It is a text in search of the audience it was written for i.e. the upper castes.2. The Indian educational system does not do justice to Dr. Ambedkar as it does to M.K. Gandhi. Neither does it acknowledge the rampant ‘casteism’ in all walks of life.3. The Indian Government insists that casteism and racism are dissimilar while glossing over the fact that for all practical purposes the effects are the same. While apartheid was challenged in international forums, the practice of caste has remained an ‘internal matter’ to India.4. Dr. Ambedkar’s sound bite on the caste system – ‘ascending scale of reverence and a descending scale of contempt’.5. M. K. Gandhi’s view on the same caste system – ‘the genius of Indian society’.6. M.K. Gandhi believed in ‘ancestral occupations’ – occupations one has to follow based on birth but only for others. He was a trader by birth, but became a lawyer.7. Positive discrimiation – called ‘reservation’ in universities and ‘government’ jobs has allowed only a miniscule number of Dalits to get access to education and jobs, even though this is the cause of many a protest in India from upper caste Indians. In Arundhati Roy’s words, “It creates situations where a Brahmin clerk may have to serve under a Dalit civil servant. Even this tiny opportunity that Dalits have won for themselveswashes up against a wall of privileged-caste hostilityâ€.8. Dr. Ambedkar’s ideas of religious reform were pretty quaint – “priests should be ‘licensed’ by the Stateâ€Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts on why Hinduisim ceased to be a missionary religion – “Caste is inconsistent with conversion. In which caste should the convert be placed? Castes are autonomous and there is no authority anywhere to compel a caste to accept a newcomer. Hindu society being a collection castes, and each caste being a closed corporation, there is no place for a convertâ€.
Democracy hasn't eradicated the caste system but has entrenched and modernized it. This seminal work is critical in an epoch where caste has been force-fitted into reductive marxist class analysis. ''''''' (Antyaja Sanskrit), the last born outside the pale of Hindu society; the "Untouchables", have been banished from the collective conscious of my generation through selective erasure and deliberate acts of unseeing and this book is critical for those wishing to develop a holistic view.Babasaheb Ambedkar -- now reduced to a Ghetto king stripped away of his radical intellect -- wrote "Annihilation of Caste" in 1936 for the Hindu reformist group, the Jat-Pat Today Mandal (forum for breakup of case). Thanks to apathy and nonchalance, the keynote address was was never delivered. This inexcusable ambivalence was highlighted by Gandhi expounding scavenging s*** as a religious duty. Arundhati Roy's biting commentary does more justice and covers this in detail in the introduction.Ambedkar talks at length about the genesis of caste and I found one quote particularly pertinent: "The Purusha Sukta is a later interpolation in the Rig Veda. Verses in the form of questions about the division of Purusha and the origins of the Varnas are a fraudulent emendation of the original."The chapters on pollution and purity were critical for understanding the need for affirmative action. For example, the Nayádis (literally dog-eaters) of Malabar, the lowest class of Hindus in Kerala would contaminate a Brahmin (the highest class in Hindu society) at a distance of 300 feet. This denial of entitlement of land, wealth, knowledge and equal opportunity due to pollution rules defines the genetic blueprint of Hindu society and any change requires perspective.
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