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A researcher says he knows little about the man himself but has keenly felt his legacy on university campuses, in education and in politics. Ambedkarism, to him, are the vibrant, diverse and inclusive educational and political spaces he has found himself in over the past decade or so

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It is as if politics in Uttar Pradesh has come full circle since 1993. But this time, the alliance needs to go beyond capturing political power. It needs to strive to bring about social and cultural transformation among the Bahujans and ease inter-caste tensions, even annihilate caste

In the recent years, the Sangh and its men have garlanded the statues of Phule and Ambedkar but worked to negate their thoughts. Against this backdrop, it was paramount that someone reviewed the entire context and laid bare the reality. This was not going to be easy. But learned author and thinker Kanwal Bharti has accomplished this task through his book RSS aur Bahujan Chintan

Our myths empower us. It was Jotirao Phule who first noted the importance of Bahujan myths in his treatise ‘Gulamgiri’. Later, Ambedkar too wrote at length on the subject. These myths have assumed greater significance in the second decade of the 21st century, explains Kanwal Bharti

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Dr Chedi Lal Sathi was the chairman of the first Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission. After the passing of Bodhanand and Shivdayal Chauraria, he emerged as the most tenacious fighter for the rights of the Bahujans. Kanwal Bharti remembers his life and works

The attempts to replace the word ‘Dalit’ with ‘Bahujan’ and the recommendation of Delhi University standing committee on academic matters for removing three books by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd from the postgraduate political science syllabus, raise disturbing questions. Mukesh Kumar Bairva explores the issues and the politics surrounding these decisions

Jesus did not choose to be born into a family of priests or kings. He chose to be born into the family of a carpenter and would himself have worked as a carpenter in his youth. He chose neither power, nor wealth nor status, reinforcing what the Bible says in its very first chapter – that every man and woman is created in the image of God

In his forthcoming book, ‘RSS aur Bahujan Chintan’, to be published by Forward Press, Kanwal Bharti exposes the double-faced RSS and its attempts to co-opt Ambedkar. He does so while reviewing booklets published by the organization as part of its Rashtriya Jagran Abhiyan. Here, Kanwal Bharti introduces the book