It was regarding the Shudras, who were, in the caste hierarchy, a rungĪbove the Untouchables, Ambedkar’s own people. As the title of the former book makes it clear, Who Were the Shudras? was written before Dr Ambedkar embarked upon the successor volume, Who Were the Untouchables?, He had undertaken the project of investigating the history of the Of social deformities and emerging with clues towards social reform that It was in the spirit of searching for ways to get to the bottom Where he had stressed the need for social reform to precede political “preached the gospel that for India social democracy was more vital thanīabasaheb had already set forth this argument in his book from the 1930s, Annihilation of Caste, Slavery to the higher classes” but more specifically because he Mahatma Jotiba Phule,” runs the dedicatory line in the book.įor Dr Ambedkar, Phule was the “Greatest Shudra of Modern India,” ofĬourse, “because he made the lower classes of Hindus conscious of their In 1946, was dedicated to Mahatma Phule: “Inscribed to the Memory of His book, Who Were the Shudras? How they came to be the Fourth Varna in the Indo-Aryan Society, published Babasaheb Ambedkar’s prefaces to his works were often as penetratingĪnd incisive as the main body of the work that followed.
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