THE AMBEDKAR BLOG: HISTORY AND POSTS

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BLOG POSTS: OVERVIEW OF THE WORKS OF AMBEDKAR

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Ambedkar on Nation and Democracy

• Ambedkar's "States and Minorites": A Critical Review

       Risha Shah​​​

• Why Ambedkar Demanded “One State, One Language”: An Overview of His “Thoughts on Linguistic States”

       Ranjana Sarkar​

• Rethinking ‘One State, One Language’: Reading Ambedkar's “Maharashtra as a Linguistic Province”

       Soham Adhikari

• Ambedkar's “Communal Deadlock and A Way to Solve It”: A Critical Overview

       Debosmita Dutta​​

• Why Ambedkar Supported Partition: Remarks on His “Pakistan or the Partition of India”

       Samidh Sadhu​​

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Ambedkar on Caste and Untouchability

• Advent and Evolution of the Caste System: A Close Reading of Ambedkar’s “Castes in India”

       Hirannya Sen​

• Rereading History: On Ambedkar's "The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables"

       Sharmistha Saha

• A History of Manhandling Trauma: Reading Ambedkar's "Untouchables or the Children of India's Ghetto"

       Kallol Biswas​

• Volatile Revisions of History through Theory: Analysing Ambedkar's "Who Were the Shudras?"

       Aritra Banerjee ​

• Citizenship delayed is citizenship denied: Reading Ambedkar's "Waiting for a Visa"

       Barshana Banerjee

• Untouchability and The Raj: Analysing Ambedkar's “The Untouchables and The Pax Britannica”

       Diya Ghosh

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Ambedkar on Hinduism

• Hinduism on Trial: Deciphering Ambedkar’s “Philosophy of Hinduism”

       Disha Chakraborty

• Inequality of the Hindu Social Order: Reading Ambedkar's "India and the Prerequisites of Communism"

       Abhista Goswami​

• An Overview of Five Riddles from Ambedkar's "Riddles in Hinduism"

       Sayanti Sikder

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Ambedkar on Buddhism

• Reading Ambedkar's “Buddha or Karl Marx”: Rethinking Equality in Times of Disparity

       Ishan Purkait

• Rethinking the Importance of Buddhism: An Analysis of Ambedkar's "What the Buddha Taught"

       Sneha Mahato       

• In Search of the Historical Buddha: An Overview of Ambedkar's "Buddha and His Dhamma"

       Soham Chakraborty

• On Brahminism vs. Buddhism: Reading Ambedkar's “Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India”

       Ditsa Mandal

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Ambedkar on Gandhism

• Ambedkar’s Speech on “Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah”: A Critical Overview

       Priyanka Das

• Dismantling Gandhism: Remarks on Ambedkar's "What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables"

       Shreya Ghosh​​

• How Gandhi Betrayed the Untouchables: A Note on Ambedkar's "Gandhi and His Fast"

       Ahana Mondal​​

• On Dalit Representation : A Note on Ambedkar's "Mr. Gandhi and the Emancipation of the Untouchables"

       Shramana Halder​

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Ambedkar on Woman Question

• Critiquing Brahminical Patriarchy: An Overview of Ambedkar's "The Woman and the Counter-Revolution"

       Sainaz Farzana Kazi      ​

• On the Participation of Women: A Reading of Ambedkar's "Mahad Satyagraha"

       Ayesha Sultana

• Manu, not Buddha, was at Fault: Reading Ambedkar's "Rise and Fall of Hindu Woman"

       Madhumita Mandal​

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Ambedkar's Economic Thought

• On Economics, Banking and Trades: A Critical Overview of Ambedkar's "The Problem of the Rupee"

       Janardan Das  

• On Ambedkar's Master's Thesis: Revisiting "Administration and Finance of the East India Company"

       Nadimul Islam​

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Reviews of Recent Books on Caste

• A Bahujan Critique of Brahmanism: Reviewing Ilaiah's Why I am Not a Hindu

       Sparsha Barman

• A Review of Ilaiah's Buffalo Nationalism

       Monalisa Rahaman

• A Review of Sekhar Bandyopadhyay's Caste Culture and Hegemony

       Damayanti Sarkar​

• Buddhism and the Caste Question: A Review of Omvedt's Buddhism in India

       Aiswarya Maity           

• A Bibliography of the English Language Books on Ambedkar

       Mahitosh Mandal

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Caste-based Discrimination: Case Studies

• Remembering Chuni Kotal

       Dhritimay Sarkar​

• Remembering Rohith Vemula

       Arnab Chatterjee

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