Gandhi and the Caste Question in Colonial India

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-00464-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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 distinctive understanding of the caste question which differed sharply from that of his contemporaries both on 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Upadhyay, Shashi Bhushan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: Caste and Varna 1. Intractable Caste and Benign Varna 2. No Caste and Reconstructed Varna Part II: Confronting Untouchability 3. Chronological Narrative- I 4. Chronological Narrative- II 5. Thematic Narratives: I 6. Thematic Narratives: II Part III: Understanding Gandhi 7. Did Gandhi have a Strategy?. Gandhi and the Caste Question: By Way of Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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.