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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: ESSENTIAL WRITINGS; LIFE SKETCH; THE WORKS OF AMBEDKAR; RELEVANCE OF AMBEDKAR TODAY; REMINISCENCE: ON THE WAY TO GOREGAON; CONCEPTS: RELIGION AND DHAMMA; DEMOCRACY; FRANCHISE; REPRESENTATION; REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES; UNTOUCHABILITY; CASTE AND CLASS; METHODOLOGY: ON PROVINCIAL FINANCE; ON UNTOUCHABLES; IDEOLOGY: RANADE, GANDHI AND JINNAH; CASTE, CLASS AND DEMOCRACY; GANDHISM; BUDDHA OR KARL MARX; RELIGION: KRISHNA AND HIS GITA; THE BUDDHA AND HIS PREDECESSORS; DOES THE BUDDHA HAVE A SOCIAL MESSAGE?; CONVERSION ( AWAY FROM THE HINDUS ); CASTE: CASTES IN INDIA: THEIR ORIGIN. MECHANISM AND DEVELOPMENT; ANNIHILATION OF CASTE; REPLY TO THE MAHATMA; UNTOUCHABILITY:OUTSIDE THE FOLD; FROM MILLIONS TO FRACTIONS; THE UNTOUCHABLES AND THE PAX BRITANNICA; AN ANTI-UNTOUCHABILITY AGENDA; POLITICAL SAFEGUARDS FOR DEPRESSED CLASSES; IDENTITY: WHO ARE THE SUDRAS? ORIGIN OF UNTOUCHABILITY; ECONOMICS: THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE SCOPE OF PROVINCIAL FINANCE; THE SILVER STANDARD A; ND THE; EVILS OF ITS INSTABILITY; NATIONALISM:IS THERE A CASE FOR PAKISTAN? ( A NATIONALITY CALLING FOR A HOME ); CONSTITUTIONALSIM AND LAW: BASIC FEATURES OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION; THE HINDU CODE BILL; FURTHER READING; SOURCES OF SELECTION; CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; INDEX
