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At the Gates of Democracy: A study of “Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics”
['Kamran Baradaran']
NAKED PUNCH
Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan, Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics, Edited, introduced, and annotated by Maël Montévil, (Hurst Publishers, UK; Oxford University Press, USA), 2024.
In Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics, (hereon IPIR) Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan offer a meticulously reasoned and deeply disconcerting reassessment of India’s socio-political framework.
Access to temples, knowledge (such as the Vedas), and essential public resources like roads and drinking water have all been routinely denied to the lower castes.
The book asserts that the singular noble objective of politics in India is the dismantling of the oppressive inherited inequality of the caste system to establish a polity characterized by equality.
He firmly resisted the request of the lower castes for separate electorates, apprehensive that it would undermine Hinduism.
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