Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay

Gandhi and the Caste Question in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book comprehensively surveys and critically analyses Gandhi's ideas on caste and untouchability. It emphasizes the fact that Gandhi was a considerable thinker who had seminal ideas on the caste question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041005506
• ISBN-10: 1041005504
• Artikelnr.: 72701334

Autorenporträt

Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is Professor of History at IGNOU. His research interests are mainly in the fields of intellectual history, historiography, labour history, literary history and nationalist movement. His publications include Historiography in the Modern World: Western and Indian Perspectives (2016), Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919 (2004), two co-edited volumes, Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and History (2010) and School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012), and about 25 articles and book chapters on labour, Dalits, Premchand, and Gandhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Caste and Varna 1. Intractable Caste and Benign Varna
2. No Caste and Reconstructed Varna Part II: Confronting Untouchability 3.
Chronological Narrative- I 4. Chronological Narrative- II 5. Thematic
Narratives: I 6. Thematic Narratives: II Part III: Understanding Gandhi 7.
Did Gandhi have a Strategy?. Gandhi and the Caste Question: By Way of
Conclusion.