Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In a letter dated 12 December 1935, the secretary of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Break Up of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist organization based in Lahore, invited Dr.Ambedkar to deliver a speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. [2]
The Poona Pact represented a clash between two contrasting views: Gandhi's emphasis on caste reform through social and spiritual means and Ambedkar's insistence on addressing caste as a political issue. Ambedkar argued that political democracy would be meaningless without the equal participation of the depressed classes. [11]
Ambedkar reminisces about his experience during his trip to Bombay in 1929, when the untouchables of Chalisgaon sent their nephew to drive Ambedkar to their house on a Tonga because all the Tonga-drivers refused to give Ambedkar, a Mahar, a ride. [5] The driver was unskilled and they meet with an accident, but receive prompt medical aid.
Ambedkar Nagar is one of the 75 districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This district is a part of Ayodhya division in the Awadh region of the state. This district was established on 29 September 1995 by carving out parts of the erstwhile Faizabad district (now Ayodhya district ). [ 1 ]
The Radical in Ambedkar (ed.) (Penguin Random House, New Delhi, 2018) ISBN 978-0670091157 [45] Republic of Caste: Thinking of Equality in the Era of Neoliberalism and Hindutva (Navayana, New Delhi, 2018) ISBN 978-8189059842 [46] Dalits: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, London and New York, 2016) ISBN 978-1138688759
In July 2015, when the SBC quota was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, [23] the BJP government filed a review petition against this decision in Supreme Court. [ 35 ] In March 2015, days after the Supreme Court scrapped a proposal for Jat reservation, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy asked the government to bring an ordinance to provide ...
The term Dalit is for those called the "untouchables" and others that were outside of the traditional Hindu caste hierarchy. [6] [7] Economist and reformer B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) said that untouchability came into Indian society around 400 CE, due to the struggle for supremacy between Buddhism and Brahmanism. [8]
Ambedkar's World: The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement Eleanor Zelliot: Untouchable Spring G. Kalyana Rao Understanding Caste: From Buddha To Ambedkar And Beyond Gail Omvedt: Seeking Begumpura Dalit Visions (Tracts for the Times) Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But...