Rethinking Caste and Resistance in India

by Murzban Jal (Editor)

Overview

This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers on the historist and humanist transcendence of the caste system such that an authentic democracy can bloom in India. It locates caste as not only a social problem, but a moral evil and schizophrenia affecting India civilization.

Besides reflecting on Jotiba Phule, Karl Marx, and B.R. Ambedkar, this book also traverses through Nietzschean genealogy, communalism in colonial India, the need for radical education to fulfil the democratic revolution, the literature of Triveni Sangh, questions of social exclusion and inequality, the story of Eklavya in the Mahabharata and the asking of pertinent questions to the Indian left.

This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032524726
Publisher:	Aakar Books
Publication date:	10/09/2024
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Murzban Jal is Director and Professor at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Caste and the Need of Philosophical Humanism

Murzban Jal

1. Contesting Brahmanical Hegemony of Knowledge: Jotiba Phule’s Path for Alternative Education

Umesh Bagade

2. Developing a Nietzschean Genealogical Critique of the Metaphysical and Moral Underpinnings of the Hindu Caste System

Rajesh Sampath

3. The Communal Question in Colonial India: A Study of Ambedkar’s Approach

S.K. Chahal

4. Ambedkar, the Unfulfi lled Democratic Revolution and the Politics of Education

Dilip Chavan

5. Triveni Sangh in Literature and the Literature of

Triveni Sangh

Pramod Ranjan

6. Caste, Social Exclusion and Inequality in Independent India

Rajendra P. Mamgain

7. Thinking Identity Through the Mahābhārata: Story of Ekalavya

Daniel Raveh

8. Asking Questions to the Indian Left

Murzban Jal

9. Thoughts for the Indian Left

Murzban Jal

Contributors