Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the question of socialism in India
In: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Intro -- Titles Published -- Titles Forthcoming -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1 A Haunting -- 2 A "Politically Unimaginable" Politics -- 3 Chapters -- 4 Terminology -- 2 'A Part Apart': The Life and Times of Dr. Ambedkar -- 1 Straddling Times and Places -- 2 Ambedkar's Maharashtra -- 3 A Worthy Forebear: Jotirao Phule and His Kingdom of Bali -- 4 Educational Journeys -- 5 Querying Nationalism -- 6 Interwar India: Gandhi, the Left and Ambedkar in the Late 1920s -- 7 Thinking Beyond Nation and Class -- 8 The Making of a National Leader -- 9 Annihilating the Social Order -- 10 The 1940s and After: Constitutional Labour and the Buddhist Turn -- 3 Pax Britannica: Conceptualizing Colonial Rule and State -- 1 A New Politics -- 2 Social Liberals, Radical Nationalists and the Colonial State -- 3 Refusing Colonial and National Political Custodianship -- 4 Communists, Ambedkar and the Repressive State -- 5 The Modern State and Common Welfare: Ambedkar, American Progressives and British Socialists -- 6 Arguing with the State -- 7 Colonial Law and Social Transformation: Ambedkar's Legal Labour -- 8 Rethinking the Political: Colonial Reform and Constitutional Norms -- 9 Moral Force, Public Conscience and the State -- 4 A New Time: Arguing with History and Imagining Utopia -- 1 Turning to the Past -- 2 At the Threshold of History -- 3 Could History Be Freedom? -- 4 The Left Turn to Ancient India -- 5 History and the Question of Indian National Unity -- 6 Writing Histories of Inequality -- 7 Conceptualizing Conflict and Change -- 8 Who Were the Shudras? and the Untouchables? -- 9 History and the Question of Reproduction -- 5 Graded Inequality and Untouchability: Towards the Annihilation of Caste -- 1 The Right to Well-being -- 2 The Caste Order and Untouchability: A Double Negation.