Gandhi and the Caste Question in Colonial India; First Edition by Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay ISBN 9781003610427, 1003610420 instant download

Gandhi and the Caste Question in Colonial India; First Edition by Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay ISBN 9781003610427, 1003610420 instant download

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. As an intellectual history, this book is not just a study of his ideas but also of what he practised. It narrates his struggle against untouchability since his South African days, and focuses on his distinctive understanding of the caste question, which differed sharply from that of his contemporaries on both the right and the left. The book also critically analyses and questions the attribution of strategy to Gandhi with regard to both the nationalist and anti-untouchability movements. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, caste and discrimination studies, and South Asian studies.