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Born in 1891 into an ‘untouchable’ family, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was witness to all the decisive phases of India's freedom movement. While the well-known elite nationalists like Gandhi and Nehru led the struggle for political freedom from British colonial rule, Ambedkar fought a correlated but different struggle, one for the liberation of the most oppressed sections of Indian society. Ambedkar's nationalism focussed on the building of a nation, on the creation of social equality and cultural integration in a society held enslaved for centuries by the unique tyrannies of caste and varna ideologies. His would be an enlightened India based on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity.
In this concise biography, Gail Omvedt, a long-time researcher of Dalit politics and culture, presents with empathy Ambedkar's struggle to become educated, overcome the stigma of untouchability and pursue his higher studies abroad. She portrays how he gradually rose to become a lawyer of international repute, a founder of a new order of Buddhism and a framer of India's Constitution.
Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India puts the man and his times in context. Exploring Ambedkar's various aspects—as scholar, lawyer, economist, religious leader and intellectual—it explains to a new generation of readers how he became a national and Dalit leader and an icon of the dispossessed.
Edition: Hardback
Format: A | 188 pages
Classification: Non Fiction
Published: 4/1/2004
About the author Born in Minneapolis, USA, Gail Omvedt is an Indian citizen. She has an MA and Ph.D in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been living in India since 1978, settled in Kasegaon Village in southern Maharashtra, with her husband, Bharat Patankar, and other members of an Indian joint family. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
Born in 1891 into an ‘untouchable’ family, Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was witness to all the decisive phases of India's freedom movement. While the well-known elite nationalists like Gandhi and Nehru led the struggle for political freedom from British colonial rule, Ambedkar fought a correlated but different struggle, one for the liberation of the most oppressed sections of Indian society. Ambedkar's nationalism focussed on the building of a nation, on the creation of social equality and cultural integration in a society held enslaved for centuries by the unique tyrannies of caste and varna ideologies. His would be an enlightened India based on the values of liberty, equality and fraternity.
In this concise biography, Gail Omvedt, a long-time researcher of Dalit politics and culture, presents with empathy Ambedkar's struggle to become educated, overcome the stigma of untouchability and pursue his higher studies abroad. She portrays how he gradually rose to become a lawyer of international repute, a founder of a new order of Buddhism and a framer of India's Constitution.
Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India puts the man and his times in context. Exploring Ambedkar's various aspects—as scholar, lawyer, economist, religious leader and intellectual—it explains to a new generation of readers how he became a national and Dalit leader and an icon of the dispossessed.
Edition: Hardback
Format: A | 188 pages
Classification: Non Fiction
Published: 4/1/2004
About the author Born in Minneapolis, USA, Gail Omvedt is an Indian citizen. She has an MA and Ph.D in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been living in India since 1978, settled in Kasegaon Village in southern Maharashtra, with her husband, Bharat Patankar, and other members of an Indian joint family. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
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