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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- B.R. Ambedkar: his contemporary relevance -- B.R. Ambedkar's understanding of democracy -- Understanding nation and nationality: from the perspective of B.R. Ambedkar -- B.R. Ambedkar, Constitution and Constitutional morality -- Ambedkar and the liberation of women -- Social, economic and political discrimination in contemporary period |
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Higher learning educational institutions and the institutional discrimination in modern in India: critical interrogation -- The current scenario and the revisiting Ambedkar -- B.R. Ambedkar and debating philosophical interventions responses -- References -- 2. Ambedkar as a political philosopher -- Central concepts -- Mode of argumentation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. Ambedkar's autobiography and the emergence of a discourse of dignity -- Autobiographical experience -- Back to the village -- Dignity in the Preamble -- The Constituent Assembly Debates -- B.N. Rau intervenes |
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One word, two opposite meanings -- Dignity as distinction -- Doubling dignity -- The dignity of philosophers -- Testing philosophy through temple entry -- From philosophy into law -- Castes of mind -- Autobiographical experience, again -- Not bread but honour -- Note -- References -- 4. Ambedkar's democracy and state socialism -- Ambedkar's morality -- Ambedkar's democracy -- Ambedkar's state socialism -- References -- 5. Vagabond Dalit: social obligation and quest for freedom -- Individual freedom or social equality: a conceptual entry -- Prioritizing social equality -- The JNU case |
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The Brahmanical gazes -- The emergence of the political Dalit -- The vagabond Dalit-self -- Freedom versus responsibility -- Understanding the vagabond Dalit self -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Ambedkar's debate on equality and liberty: fraternity as political normative -- Introduction -- Liberty and equality in Rousseau and Marx -- Ambedkar's perspective on liberty and equality in Indian political discourse -- Politics of equality and liberty for a democracy -- Ambedkar's idea of fraternity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
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7. The rights of women and emancipation B.R. Ambedkar's perspective -- Introduction -- Hindu social order -- impediment to social justice -- Women and social reform movements -- The significance of the Hindu Code Bill -- Education -- an instrument of social change -- Constitutional provisions towards gender equality -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 8. Women's question in Ambedkar's social philosophy -- Ambedkarian hypothesis of caste and gender -- Profiling women's right: Constitution to Hindu Code Bill -- Conversion: a radical attempt -- Conclusion: organic feminism of Ambedkar -- Notes |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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References |
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Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956 -- Philosophy
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Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956. fast (OCoLC)fst01427285 |
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000461817 |
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1000461815 |
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