Bøger af Anand Teltumbde

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This book provides a comprehensive account, using many sources including the archival materials, of the two conferences in Mahad in 1927 that marks the beginning of the Dalit movement under Babasaheb Ambedkar to a wider readership in English.

A comprehensive introduction to dalits in India ¿ from the origins of caste system to the present day. The book traces the multifarious changes that befell them during the colonial period and their development thereafter under the leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar in the centre of political arena. It looks at the degeneration of the dalit movement during the post-Ambedkar period, as well as salient contemporary issues including rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, dalit capitalism, the occupation of dalit discourse by NGOs, and neoliberalism and its impact.