DECODING CASTE
B.R. Ambedkar has remained an academic untouchable given his insistence on seeing caste as the central fault line of Hindu and, indeed, Indian society. Ambedkar’s persistent, scholarly and polemical enquiries into why Hindus saw other Hindus as sub-human came to be seen more as motivated by personal animus than as a symptomatic reading of the very condition of life in India. We are paying the price
