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)
Edited by:
Murzban Jal Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 730g ISBN:9781032524719 ISBN 10: 1032524715 Pages: 308 Publication Date:23 June 2023 Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Murzban Jal is Director and Professor at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India.