{"title":"B. R. Ambedkar","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"india-and-communism-paperback","title":"India and Communism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThose who think that Babasaheb Ambedkar was against Communism or Marxism are grossly prejudiced. Ambedkar's relationship with Marxism was enigmatic. He defined himself as a socialist, not a Marxist. But he was impressed by the élan of the Marxist tradition. However, it is also true that he had serious reservations about accepting certain theoretical postulations of Marxism. Vested interests amongst the Dalits, however, pitch Ambedkar firmly as the enemy of Marxism. The fundamental category of class, through which Ambedkar viewed human society, has therefore been a complete taboo. Communists, on their part, have responded in kind, attacking him and his ideas. In the early 1950s, Ambedkar started work on a book he wanted to call India and Communism. The book was never finished. The present volume assembles what survives of this book, along with a section of another unfinished book, Can I be a Hindu? Anand Teltumbde, in his hard-hitting Introduction, charts the course of Ambedkar's thinking on communism and Marxism, the historical reasons for the rift between him and the communists, and the basis on which a larger unity of Ambedkarites and communists can be forged. This unity, he argues, is an essential prerequisite for the emancipation of India's poor and oppressed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51438142390495,"sku":"9789380118451","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/XE_ozX_dKK9789380118451.webp?v=1790092466"},{"product_id":"annihilation-of-caste-paperback","title":"Annihilation of Caste - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar - a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois - offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world's best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576018763999,"sku":"9788194488156","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0K2mwt7D7h9788194488156.webp?v=1790376908"},{"product_id":"ambedkars-india-paperback","title":"Ambedkar's India - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAMBEDKAR'S INDIA is a collection of three of B.R. Ambedkar's most prominent speeches on caste and the Indian Constitution. \"In the fight for Swaraj, you fight with the whole tion on your side. In fighting caste system, you stand against the whole tion - and that too, your own.\" \"Annihilation of Caste\" is one of Ambedkar's best works in putting together how caste as a system has been eating up the roots of a rich cultural melting pot like India. \"Bhakti in religion could lead to salvation. But in politics, Bhakti is a sure road to eventual dictatorship.\" \"The Grammar of Archy\" reflects Ambedkar's ideas on how we need to pave the way for Independent India. It reflects his deep love and aspirations for India and its people. \"...the sub-divisions [of caste] have lost the open-door character of the class system, and have become self-enclosed units called castes.\" \"Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development\" is an in-depth study of how classes went on to become castes and sub-castes to dot the Indian social system. This powerful rrative is a radical eye-opener.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577533825247,"sku":"9789387022898","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y-exctJSC-9789387022898.webp?v=1790394935"},{"product_id":"india-and-the-prerequisties-of-communism-paperback","title":"India and the Prerequisties of Communism - Paperback","description":"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67783948796127,"sku":"9789388191784","price":15.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xQno-XnBbO9789388191784.webp?v=1790693553"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/b-r-ambedkar.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}