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 …
Caste should be seen as the overarching category in Indian society: Khalid Anis Ansari
Round Table India In this episode of the Ambedkar Age series, Round Table India talks to Prof. Khalid Anis Ansari, Director, Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Exclusion Studies & Transformative Action (ACESTA), Glocal University, Uttar Pradesh. The interview focuses on the Pasmanda movement, on the issues of secularism/communalism and on the upper caste hegemony in all …