All About Ambedkar : A Journal on Theory and Praxis

Volume 1, Number 1, April-June 2020

Rajib Gandhi handing an award to Chuni Kotal in Delhi, 26 January 1988. Courtesy: Desh Patrika

Introduction

​       Mahitosh Mandal

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Featured Article

• Liberatory Visuality: Some Reflections on Sanjib Mondal's Art

       Pinak Banik​

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Reading Ambedkar

Nation and Democracy

• Ambedkar’s Vision for India: Reading “On Building of Nation and Its Democracy”

       Tirtha Chatterjee

• 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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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

• A Conspectus of Inequities: Reading Ambedkar's “Grievances of the Scheduled Castes”

       Sagnik Ghoshal

Book Reviews

• Six Latest Titles on Ambedkar and Caste Studies

       Mahitosh Mandal

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

       Sparsha Barman

Caste-based Discrimination: Case Study

• Remembering Chuni Kotal

       Dhritimay Sarkar​

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