The Constitution of India and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar + Who Were the Shudras? + Annihilation of Caste + The Untouchables: Who Wer

9789355627919 : The Constitution Of India And Dr. Babasaheb AmbedkarIt is a matter of great pleasure as well as pride to reproduce, in this book the three historic speeches delivered by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar before the Constituent Assembly of India, respectively, on (1) Tuesday, 17 December, 1946, (2) Thursday, 4 November, 1948 and (3) Friday, 25 November, 1949.Summing up Dr. Ambedkars thoughts on the Constitution, he had said that the Constitution was workable, flexible and strong enough to hold the country together both in peace time and in war time. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is, that man was vile.9789355711809 : Who Were The Shudras?Who Were the Shudras?Is a book about the history of the Shudra (lowest) varna of the Indian caste system written in 1946 by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. The book is dedicated to Jyotirao Phule and intends to break the myth about Shudras being an untouchable caste in India.Ambedkar cites the Indian scriptures like The Vedas and Mahabharata among others to argue that Shudras were in fact Aryan kings who fell to a substandard caste after a long-drawn conflict with the Brahmans. Ambedkar also discusses the Aryan race theory and does not agree on the Indo-Aryan migration that has often been considered canon in the history of the race.9789355716651 : Annihilation Of CasteAnnihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written in 1936 by B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian academic turned politician. He wrote Annihilation of Caste for the 1936 meeting of a group of liberal Hindu caste-reformers in Lahore. After reviewing the speechs controversiality, conference organizers revoked Ambedkars invitation. He then self-published the work.9789355717047 : The Untouchables: Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables?Who are the Untouchables and what is the origin of Untouchability? These are the main topics which it is sought to investigate and the results of which are contained in the following pages.Before launching upon the investigation it is necessary to deal with certain preliminary questions.The first such question is : Are the Hindus the only people in the world who observe Untouchability?