Post-Hindu India — A Discourse on Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-spiritual and
Scientific Revolution: Kancha Ilaiah; Sage Publications India Pvt.
Ltd., B 1/I-1, Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area, Mathura Road, New
Delhi-110044. Rs. 295.
Based on a study of the productive knowledge systems of the
Dalit-Bahujan communities in Andhra Pradesh, the book provides a
detailed analysis of the scientific technological processes and events
at work in the life of a member of these communities. At the macro
level, challenging Hinduism's interpretation of history, the author
takes a refreshing look at the necessity of encouraging indigenous
scientific thought for the sake of national progress. He seeks to
establish that Hinduism suppresses the latent scientific and
productive potential of the Dalit-Bahujan communities. Ilaiah argues
that the idea of social justice (varnadharma), used to justify the
caste system, is rooted in spiritual inequality and the system is so
oppressive as to be detrimental to both the future of religion and the
nation state. In his view, the Other Backward Classes "continue to
struggle for political power, not realising that as long as they are
in an oppressed position in the spiritual realm, their intellectual
potential cannot be fulfilled and their scientific temper cannot take
on a modernist shape."
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