The Weapon Of the Other: Dalitbahujan Writings and the Remaking of Indian Nationalist Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Weapon Of the Other: Dalitbahujan Writings and the Remaking of Indian Nationalist Thought write by Kancha Ilaiah. This book was released on 2012. The Weapon Of the Other: Dalitbahujan Writings and the Remaking of Indian Nationalist Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Weapon of the Other: Dalitbahujan Writings and the Remaking of Indian Nationalist Thought, contends the projection of Hindu religious texts as sources of Indian nationalist thought since colonial times while the Buddhist scriptures, the Bible and the Quran, whose readers were far more numerous, are relegated to the periphery of discussions about nationalism. He explores Indian nationalism from a different perspective, and discusses the political core of liberatory ideas as well as modern thinker-activists.
Post-Hindu India
Post-Hindu India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Hindu India write by Kancha Ilaiah. This book was released on 2009-11-20. Post-Hindu India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is entirely different from books that have been written on Indian civil societal relations, spiritual character, political economy, philosophical foundations, scientific roots, cultural essence, and historicity. It takes a journey from tribals upwards and looks at the pyramid of the communities in an inverse order. This book is an excise in new methodology, pedagogy, analysis, and synthesization of knowledge. Every chapter in this book reads like a new innovation in Indian social anthropology. It draws a different map for the future of this nation and its intellectual history.
Buffalo Nationalism
Buffalo Nationalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buffalo Nationalism write by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. This book was released on 2019-01-17. Buffalo Nationalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘O Mother Lachumamma, your blouse is torn, Your hair is soiled, your sari in rags . . . Even in that condition what have you done? You planted saplings, walking backwards like a bull, In order to produce food from the mud.’ Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd translates these words of the Telugu poet, singer, activist Gaddar to emphasize the productivity of the ordinary people, the Dalit-Bahujans of India, who receive so little in return. Arguing forcefully against spiritual fascism, which refuses equality or freedom to the majority, he commends the buffalo as a productive animal that epitomizes the qualities of the Dalit-Bahujans. This book contains a selection from Ilaiah Shepherd’s columns in The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Deccan Chronicle, Hindustan Times among others, and journals such as Mainstream and Economic and Political Weekly. Of particular interest is the new Afterword that discusses his political and social programme for the Sudras of India, presenting his vision of a more just society.
Why I Am Not a Hindu
Why I Am Not a Hindu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why I Am Not a Hindu write by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. This book was released on 2019-01-17. Why I Am Not a Hindu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘The most gratifying thing for me [is] that [this book] was listed as a millennium book [by The Pioneer] along with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste. Moreover, it has been translated into several Indian languages. In a way it has become a weapon in the hands of Dalitbahujan activists’. -from the Afterword to the second edition. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd writes with passionate anger, laced with sarcasm, on the caste system and Indian society. He looks at the socioeconomic and cultural differences between the Dalitbahujans and Hindus in the contexts of childhood, family life, market relations, power relations, Gods and Goddesses, death and, not the least, Hindutva. Synthesizing many of the ideas of Bahujans, he presents their vision of a more just society. In this second edition, Ilaiah Shepherd presents an Afterword that discusses the history of this book, often seen as the manifesto of the downtrodden Dalitbahujans. He talks of its reviews as well as of the abuse he has received from its detractors. He reminds us of the need for an ongoing dialogue. As he says, he wrote the book ‘for all who have open minds. My request to Brahmin, Baniya and neo-Kshatriyas [upper class Sudras] is this: You learnt only what to teach others—the Dalitbahujans. Now in your own interest and in the interest of this great country, you must learn to listen and to read what we have to say.’
Post-Hindu India
Post-Hindu India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Hindu India write by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd. This book was released on 2023-11-30. Post-Hindu India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd pens a thought-provoking critique of Brahmanism and the caste system in India, while anticipating the death of Hinduism as a direct consequence of, what he says is, its anti-scientific and anti-nationalistic stand. This work challenges Hinduism`s interpretation of history, with a virulent attack on caste politics, and also takes a refreshing look at the necessity of encouraging indigenous scientific thought for the sake of national progress.
