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How do we know what Ambedkar read?

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Scott R. Stroud Everyone who knows Bhimrao Ambedkar surely knows that he was a voracious reader. His personal library was a wonderful aberration in a time when books in private hands were fairly rare, not to mention the prevailing situations when those hands were labeled as “untouchable” by the oppressive customs of caste. His library …

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‘The Doctor and The Saint’ should be detached from ‘Annihilation of Caste’

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  [Via Karthik Navayan] The event Democratic Debate on Appropriation of Ambedkar’s Writings was held on 10th April 2014, in Hyderabad. It was addressed by Dalit Bahujan intellectuals, Bojja Tharakam, Professor Kancha Ilaiah, U Sambashiva Rao, Joopaka Subhadra, Gogu Shyamala and other participants who discussed thoroughly the content, and also the intentions of the publisher …