In the Ambedkar Jayanti week, we look at an excerpt from arguably his most read essay, 'Annihilation of Caste'. Quotes from famous historical figures form an important part of the syllabus for the UPSC CSE Essay paper.
Watch | Ambedkar s Thoughts and the Future of Democracy: An Interview With Aishwary Kumar
Ambedkar s bringing together of the importance of a religiosity without religion along with a singular insistence on democracy makes him one of the most unique political thinkers.
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In this interview with Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi, research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, the renowned historian and philosopher Aishwary Kumar, who is currently Professorial Fellow at Centre for South Asia, Stanford University and the author of
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi and the Risk of Democracy (Stanford, 2015), discusses the enormous significance Dr. B.R. Ambedkar holds for the future of planetary democratic thought.