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Acknowledgements | |
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Maps | |
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Introduction: The First Dalit Leader of India | |
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Maharashtra between Social Reform and anti-Brahmin Mobilisation | |
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Maharashtra and its socio-political system | |
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The questioning of the social order during the nineteenth century | |
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Ambedkar: Son of a Mahar Soldier | |
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Mahars, first of the last | |
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The family environment: the army and Western education under princely patronage | |
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Analysing and Ethnicising Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively | |
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Inventing a golden age for the lower castes: the prestige of autochthony | |
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How to resist Sanskritisation? | |
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In the Political Arena, against Gandhi | |
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Reserved seats or separate electorates? | |
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Arm wrestling with Gandhi and the Poona Pact | |
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Ambedkar and the Arya Samaj | |
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Searching for an Electoral Strategy | |
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The ILP, or how to defend workers without being a Marxist | |
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The Scheduled Castes' Federation and caste politics | |
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From the SCF to the RPI-a return to the ILP? | |
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Opposition or Collaboration? Ambedkar's Pragmatism and Resilience | |
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The British-objective allies? | |
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Ambedkar, a Dalit leader in the establishment of post-1947 India | |
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Shaping the Indian Constitution | |
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The 'False Manu'? | |
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The revenge on Gandhi of a westernised democrat | |
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The Hindu Code Bill and the break with Nehru | |
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The 'Solution' of Conversion | |
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Conversion, a strategy of social emancipation? | |
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The choice of Buddhism as an egalitarian creed | |
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The Impact and Relevance of Ambedkar Today | |
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The target of Gandhians and Hindu nationalists | |
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Collaborator with the British and gravedigger of social reform? | |
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The political legacy of Ambedkar: posterity or treason? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Index | |