Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

Ambedkar, B. R.; Ilaiah, Kancha

Columbia University Press

04/2020

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9780231195843

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Introduction: No Democracy Without Beef: Ambedkar, Identity, and Nationhood, by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Fool's Errand: A Note on the Notes to and Selection from Ambedkar's The Untouchables, by S. Anand and Alex George
Selections from B.R Ambedkar's The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?
Preface
Part IV: New theories of the origin of Untouchability.
9: Contempt for Buddhists as the root of Untouchability
10: Beef-eating as the root of Untouchability
Part V: The new theories and some hard questions
11: Did the Hindus never eat beef?
12: Why did non-Brahmins give up beef-eating?
13: What made the Brahmins become vegetarians?
14: Why should beef-eating make Broken Men Untouchable?
Part VI: Untouchability and the date of its birth
15: The Impure and the Untouchables
16: When did Broken Men become Untouchables?
The Broken Men theory: Beginnings of a Reading, by Alex George and S. Anand
References
Acknowledgments
Index
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Colonialism; South Asian history