Symbolisms, ruptures, and self-aggrandizements aside, let us look - TopicsExpress



          

Symbolisms, ruptures, and self-aggrandizements aside, let us look at some hard statistics. In the bibliography appended to the haunted-by-Gandhi introduction to AoC, one notices a list of about 120-odd books, articles, and research papers. More than half of these are by savarna authors (most, in fact, by Brahmins), a quarter by white authors, and less than 15 are by Dalits, and hardly any by OBCs or adivasis. The same is true for the annotated AoC. In the 160 bibliographic references, the proportion of Dalit writers dips even further to less than 10 per cent of the total. The footnotes and annotations follow the same pattern. The book, if one analyzes it in its entirety, is not just a conspiracy, but is a travesty and insult to Bahujans.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:16:01 +0000

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