Volume 18, No. 6, 2021

Understanding Caste And Shudras: A Standpoint Of Doctor Bhim Rao Ambedkar


Professor Suresh Kumar , Dr. Pintu Kumar , Dr. Sanjiv Ranjan

Abstract

Nobody can deny that Doctor Bhim Rao Ambedkar was a genius man of letters and words. The present paper is not focusing on this well-known part of his life. It will address another little ignored aspect of his personality i.e. unmatched intellectual creations especially in terms of the scientific, literary and historical analysis of caste and Shudras. His timeless works “Annihilation of Caste” “the Untouchables” and “Who were the Shudras?” will be focus of this essay. It becomes more important because Ambedkar’s struggle for inequality and untouchability found base and ideological strength in these academic creations connecting the root cause of caste and the victims of this system Shudras. Ambedkar treated exogamy and the hatred of Brahmins respectively as the root cause of the origin of caste and Shudras. He saw problems of downtrodden as social and economic but it was a moral problem for Gandhi.


Pages: 10013-10019

Keywords: Untouchables, Shudras, Endogamy, Exogamy, Caste, Brahmins, Upanayana.

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