Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability

Analysing and Fighting Caste

Jaffrelot Christophe

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Ambedkar, the first Untouchable ever to be formally educated, pioneered new strategies, philosophically and practically, which continue to prove effective, not least in the inspirational example he set to India's Untouchable community in their struggle for social and political rights.
Jaffrelot's biography of the great Indian politician B.R. Ambedkar is both an historical study and a document relevant to today's concerns, given the rising profile of Dalits politically and otherwise in modern India.

About the Author

Dr Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at CNRS and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris). From 2000-8, he was Director of CERI at Sciences Po. Arguably one of the world's most respected writers on Indian society and politics, his publications include "The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the 1990s", "India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India", and "Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste", all of which are published by Hurst.

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