The Ambedkar-Gandhi debate : on identity, community and justice / Bindu Puri.
Puri, Bindu.
2022
DS480.45
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Title The Ambedkar-Gandhi debate : on identity, community and justice / Bindu Puri.
Author Puri, Bindu.
ISBN 9789811686863 (electronic bk.)
9811686866 (electronic bk.)
9811686858
9789811686856
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8686-3
Published Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-8686-3 doi
Call Number DS480.45
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.03/5
Summary This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi. At one level, this debate was about a set of different but interconnected issues: caste and social hierarchies, untouchability, Hinduism, conversion, temple entry, and political separatism. The introduction to this book provides a brief overview of the engagements and conflicts in Gandhi and Ambedkar's central arguments. However, at another level, this book argues that the debate can be philosophically re-interpreted as raising their differences on the following issues: The nature of the self, The relationship between the individual self and the community, The appropriate relationship between the constitutive encumbrances of the self and a conception of justice, The relationship between memory, tradition, and self-identity. Ambedkar and Gandhis contrary conceptions of the self, history,itihaas, community and justice unpack incommensurable world views. These can be properly articulated only as very different answers to questions about the relationship between the present and the past. This book raises these questions and also establishes the link between the Ambedkar--Gandhi debate in the early 20th century and its re-interpretation as it resonates in the imagination and writing of marginalized social groups in the present times.
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1. Chapter 1. Introduction: A Brief History of the Gandhi
Ambedkar Debate
Chapter 2. Memory, Humiliation, Oppression: Untouchability and Dalit Self-Identity
Chapter 3. The Individual and the Religious Community: On Religion and Conversion
Chapter 4. Individual and Collective Identity: Confrontations on Caste and Varna
Chapter 5. The Politics of an Encumbered Self: Ambedkar and Gandhi on Separate Electorates
Chapter 6. Debating Guru: Owners and Authors
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Gandhi and Ambedkar: Philosophical divergences and convergences. .

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