A new edition of The Flaming Feet, a collection of essays on and around B.R. Ambedkar by the late Bangalore University professor D.R. Nagaraj—“the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India’s non-English-speaking world”—has just been published by Permanent Black.
Edited and introduced by his former student Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, a Mysorean who is on the faculty of the department of humanities at San Francisco State University, the book has been hailed by the historian Ramachandra Guha as the most important work of non-fiction in 2010.
A Nagaraj nugget, quoted in The Telegraph, Calcutta:
“Babasaheb [Ambedkar] had no option but to reject the Gandhian model. He had realized that this model had successfully transformed Harijans as objects in a ritual of self-purification, with the ritual being performed by those who had larger heroic notions of their individual selves.
“In the theatre of history, in a play with such a script, the untouchables would never become heroes in their own right, they were just mirrors for a hero to look at his own existentialist anger and despair, or maybe even glory.”
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Can someone throw lights on
Veer Savarkar’s second unpublished book when in cellular jail ,
Pandit Nathuram Godse’s godfather and
BR Ambedkar’s aquaintance and views with the above two.
From Peshvas ruining extended Karnataka’s democratic dominion upto the independence struggles and now till the Thakrey and Pawars the marathas saying “Jai Shivaji Jai Shivaji “have been involved in behind screen activities always though enjoying most of yoghurt and bhaakris after behans and maadars of Punjab
Until the honesty and openness comes up from Thackeray gang, Marathis will live as middle indians neither here not there breaking glasses of some media channels hoisting RSS ideas invariably.
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Ambedkar was right! Not for him the condescending largesse of the upper castes. Equality is not a gift to be bestowed. It either exists or it does not.
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