Annihilation Of Caste Av Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
“What the <i>Communist Manifesto </i>is to the capitalist world, <i>Annihilation of Caste</i> is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of <i>The Persistence of Caste</i><br><br> B.R. Ambedkar’s <i>Annihilation of Caste </i>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. The hatchet was never buried.<br><br> Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of <i>Annihilation of Caste </i>in “The Doctor and the Saint<i>,” </i>examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us
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