Gandhi and the Caste Question in Colonial India
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- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2025
Summary
Gandhi’s Vision: Caste and the Struggle for Equality in Colonial India
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 lifelong struggle against untouchability since his South African days and focuses on his …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781041005506 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1041005504 |
| Author: | Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
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.
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