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Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Karthik Raja Karuppusamy

The Shudras

Vision for a New Path

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd,  Karthik Raja Karuppusamy

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English
Penguin
22 February 2021
Prose: non-fiction; Social discrimination; Social mobility
The Shudras: Vision for a New Path weaves together the multiple dimensions of the predicaments of India's productive castes in the spiritual, social, political, economic, philosophical and historical spheres. It reformulates their current position as well as future pathways. It strives to provoke Shudras all over India to realize their unique historical role in fighting unequal caste structures. It gives a call to barricade Hindutva, in which they have no liberated, equal space with the Dwijas. At a juncture when the Shudra castes are regionalized and the Dwijas have become 'national', this volume seeks to bring home the real picture of their marginalized status in all central structures of the nation. It shows where their real fight lies. As a fifth volume of the Rethinking India series in collaboration with the Samruddha Bharat Foundation, It posits that the emancipation and progress of the Shudras are vital to sustain Ambedkar's constitutional democracy and move towards socio-spiritual equality
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Imprint:   Penguin
Dimensions:   Height: 220mm,  Width: 150mm,  Spine: 30mm
ISBN:   9780670092987
ISBN 10:   0670092983
Pages:   272
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (Author) Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd is former director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, and former head of the department of political science at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is a social activist and has been writing in English and Telugu for forty years. His well-known books, Why I Am Not a Hindu, God as a Political Philosopher, Post-Hindu India and Buffalo Nationalism have played a critical role in shaping Shudra/OBC/Dalit discourse in India and abroad. Karthik Raja Karuppusamy (Author) Karthik Raja Karuppusamy is a first-generation graduate from a Shudra family. Currently a doctoral candidate and senior research fellow at the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, his research focuses on the political, legal and socio-economic interface between Dalits and OBCs in the Kongunad region of Tamil Nadu. His MPhil dissertation, 'The Nation in Historical Imagination', theorizes how secular and communal conceptions of the 'nation' are constructed, operationalized, and disseminated through state-sponsored NCERT history textbooks post-Independence.

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