Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from the Untouchables

by B.R. Ambedkar

Book Overview

One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231195842
• ISBN13: 9780231195843
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"