GRADUATED INEQUALITY - OR THE WORSE OF IN EQUALITIES - ANALYSIS OF THE HINDU-SOCIETY BY AMBEDKAR

Authors
HERRENSCHMIDT O
Citation
O. Herrenschmidt, GRADUATED INEQUALITY - OR THE WORSE OF IN EQUALITIES - ANALYSIS OF THE HINDU-SOCIETY BY AMBEDKAR, Archives europeennes de sociologie, 37(1), 1996, pp. 3
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
Archives europeennes de sociologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039756
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9756(1996)37:1<3:GI-OTW>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was not just a politician of grand statu re and from the untouchable caste. He was also a scholar, whose consis tent and innovative thinking has hitherto been neglected. Ambedkar's L ines of force are presented here, both in relation to his analytical c ritique of the organic metaphor of the social body as developed in bra hmin texts, and of his definition of 'graduated inequality', a specifi c Hindu form, for which he developed the psychological as well as the political implications.