Dalit Intellectuals: Ideas, Struggles and the Vision
Publication Year
2022
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Ambedkar and the Reconstruction of Modern India
Yagati Chinna Rao
2. Of Nobleness and Deception: The Mahar Watan Land Reform in Maharashtra
Prashant Bansode
3. Ambedkar’s Hindu Code Bill: An Idea and its Political Discourses
Neha Singh
4. Searching for ‘a Self and a Collective’: The Creative Articulations of ‘Lower Caste’ Bengali Intellectuals
Sudarshana Bhaumik
5. Hyderabad, Deccan’s Qaide-e-Pastaquam: Intimations of the Maverick Priyadarshini Vijaisri
6. Dalit Assertion and Leadership in Hyderabad State: Understanding Arigay Ramaswamy's Life and Struggle
Chandraiah Gopani
7. Caste, Emancipation and Ideology: M.C. Rajah and the Adi-Dravida Political Movement in Colonial Tamil Nadu
K. Deepanjan
8. Interrogating the Adi-Dravida Identity and the Panchama Intellectual Space in Early Twentieth Century Tamil Nadu
Raj Sekhar Basu
9. Proponent of Minorities as United Political Force: A Neglected Bahujan Thinker, B. Shyam Sunder
Suresh Garimella
10. Bhagwan Das and the Internationalization of the Issue of Untouchability Shura Darapuri
11. ‘I too contributed equally’: Dakshayani Velayudan and Her Role in the Constituent Assembly
Sangita Yadav
12. Kanshiram as a Public Intellectual: Public Philosophy and Politics
Narendra Kumar
13. Reflections on the Making of a Dalit Intellectual: Tulsi Ram’s Murdahia
Hitendra K. Patel
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography