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Building the Idea of India: Conserving Brahmanism and the Brahmanical State? Part III

by rti_adminon September 10, 2016March 20, 20230

Continued from here. Pinak Banik Gandhi’s attempt to abolish untouchability in the 1930s without ever questioning the varanshrama dharma is like todays fight against Hindutva without recognizing Brahmanism. Gandhi only created a token group of SC representatives, who were never given any chance to voice their issues, which later Saheb Kanshiram defined as the …

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Building the Idea of India: Conserving Brahmanism and the Brahmanical State? Part II

by rti_adminon April 9, 2016March 20, 20233

Pinak Banik Continued from here. Prof. Habib advances, saying, “a concept of India, politically independent, is already present in 1857. But was it sufficient?”, “something more was needed to turn India from a ‘country’ into a ‘nation’.Two stages seem to me to be very important for such conversion. First of all, there had to …