The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate - On Identity, Community and Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book reconstructs the philosophical issues informing the debate between the makers of modern India: Ambedkar and Gandhi. At one level, this debate was about a set of different but interconnected issues: caste and social hierarchies, untouchability, Hinduism, conversion, temple entry, and political separatism. The introduction to this book provides a brief overview of the engagements and conflicts in Gandhi and Ambedkar's central arguments. However, at another level, this book argues that the debate can be philosophically re-interpreted as raising their differences on the following issues: The nature of the self, The relationship between the individual self and the community, The appropriate relationship between the constitutive encumbrances of the self and a conception of justice, The relationship between memory, tradition, and self-identity. Ambedkar and Gandhi's contrary conceptions of the self, history,itihaas, community and justice unpack incommensurable world views. These can be properly articulated only as very different answers to questions about the relationship between the present and the past. This book raises these questions and also establishes the link between the Ambedkar--Gandhi debate in the early 20th century and its re-interpretation as it resonates in the imagination and writing of marginalized social groups in the present times.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Bindu Puri
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	266
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-981-16-8685-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	981-16-8685-8
Barcode:	9789811686856

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