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Who Were the Shudras? is a history book published by Indian social reformer and polymath B. R. Ambedkar in 1946. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book discusses the origin of the Shudra Varna . Ambedkar dedicated the book to Jyotirao Phule (1827–1890).
Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, a social reformer, believed that there were initially only three varnas: the Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya, and that the Shudras were the Kshatriyas who were denied the Upanayana, an initiation ritual, by the Brahmins. [77] This claim has been contested by historians such as R. S. Sharma. Sharma criticised Ambedkar for ...
Ambedkar viewed the Shudras as Aryan and adamantly rejected the Aryan invasion theory, describing it as "so absurd that it ought to have been dead long ago" in his 1946 book Who Were the Shudras?. [155] Ambedkar viewed Shudras as originally having been "part of the Kshatriya Varna in the Indo-Aryan society", but became socially degraded after ...
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B. R. Ambedkar with the leaders and activists of the All India Untouchable Women Conference held at Nagpur in 1942. B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian social reformer and politician who came from a social group that was considered untouchable, theorized that untouchability originated because of the deliberate policy of the Brahmins.
Waiting for a Visa is an autobiographical document written by B. R. Ambedkar during the period of 1935–36. [1] The manuscript was published as a booklet, posthumously, on March 19, 1990, by the People's Education Society.
Mahar is an Indian caste found largely in the state of Maharashtra and neighbouring areas. [11] [12] Most of the Mahar community followed B. R. Ambedkar in converting to Buddhism in the middle of the 20th century.
Hindi translations of Ambedkar’s books such as Who Were the Shudras? (1946), The Untouchables (1948) and Annihilation of Caste (1982) Jigyasu mainly published small Hindi-language pamphlets by Dalit authors, including songs, poems, dramas, ideological articles, and caste histories.