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A distorted study of India's road to nationhood
By Manju Gupta
The Weapon of the Other: Dalitbahujan Writings and the Remaking of
Indian Nationalist Thought, Kancha Ilaiah, Pearson Education, Pp 192
(HB), Rs 695.00
THE author begins by voicing his grievance at finding plenty of
literature on Nehru, Marxism and Gandhism but not on Ambedkar at the
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and it is this which prompts him to
write a book on Indian nationalism from the Dalit bahujan perspective.
In the introduction, he says that Indian nationalism has had a Western
origin because of which and also because of the Brahmanic background
of many scholars, Hindu religion has been perceived as a nationalist
religion with caste prejudices set aside in nationalist discourses. He
says that for Ambedkar "the very history of Hindu religion is a
terrain of war. Its birth is based on caste and untouchability and its
death is also related to those structures."
The book examines the Dalit movement that reconstructed the Dalit
ideology and consciousness in Andhra Pradesh after instances of
massacre of Dalits in Karamchedu and Chundur in the 1980s and 1990s.
(Pearson Education, 7th Floor, Knowledge Boulevard, A-8 (A),
Sector-62, Noida-201 309.)
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