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Ambedkar negotiated a compromise with the inn-keeper, proposing to register with a false Parsi name. The inn-keeper agreed, and Ambedkar was allowed to stay; however, this was eventually discovered by other Parsis on the eleventh day of Ambedkar's stay, when a group of angry Parsi men, armed with sticks, arrived to remove him from the inn.
Riddles in Hinduism is an English language book by the Indian social reformer and political leader B. R. Ambedkar, aimed at enlightening the Hindus, and challenging the sanatan (static) view of Hindu civilization circulated by "European scholars and Brahmanic theology".
Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development was a paper read by B. R. Ambedkar at an anthropological seminar of Alexander Goldenweiser in New York on 9 May 1916. It was later published in volume XLI of Indian Antiquary in May 1917. In the same year, Ambedkar was awarded a PhD degree by Columbia University on this topic. [1]
B. R. Ambedkar: Waiting for a Visa: The book is used as a textbook in Columbia University. [1] 1936 Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography: 1940 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: The Story of My Experiments with Truth: 1946 Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi: Rajendra Prasad, first president: Atmakahktha: Hindi 1950 U. V. Swaminatha Iyer: En ...
Written in English, the book has been translated to many languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Kannada. [citation needed] It was republished in 1979 as the eleventh volume of Ambedkar's collected writings and speeches, with a list of sources and an index. [3]
Ambedkar claims that the application of the word in the Hindu sense is incorrect as it wrongly associates them with the people and culture of the Indo-Aryan society, who committed wrongdoings, such as offending the Brahmins. [4] Ambedkar also discusses Aryan race theory and rejects Indo-Aryan invasion theory [5] in the book. [6]
The book focuses on the urgent need for social reform to take precedence over political and religious reform in Indian society. Ambedkar meticulously exposes the tyranny imposed by upper-caste Hindus on the untouchable community, providing instances of discrimination and advocating for the reconstruction of Hindu society.
The section ends with the characters from the frame story discussing Ambedkar's contribution to social equality and justice in India as both an agitator and an architect of the Constitution. The polemic of Gandhi versus Ambedkar towards the end brings to the reader's attention that, unlike Gandhi, Ambedkar's was a far more universal struggle ...