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On the anniversary of its publication, Omprakash Kashyap treats the text ‘Gulamgiri’ as the culmination of Jotirao Phule’s lifelong mission to educate the Shudras-Atishudras and outlines its content

Omprakash Kashyap writes that as a child, Marathi ‘Lok Shahir’ Annabhau Sathe used to sing ‘abhangs’ hailing Vithal, the deity. The abhangs carried the message of social equality and censured caste hierarchy. Soon, he realized that poverty had nothing to do with destiny and was the biggest impediment to achieving social equality

Forward Press also publishes books on Bahujan issues. Forward Press books shed light on the widespread problems as well as the finer aspects of Bahujan (Dalit, OBC, Adivasi, Nomadic, Pasmanda) society, culture, literature and politics

There are several intersections between Ambedkar and Marx. However, Ambedkar had also pointed out several aspects of Marxism that were inapplicable in the Indian context. Although Ambedkar’s writings appear India-centric at first glance, the ideas they contain are actually universal

If we had people like him at the helm of economic affairs, the 250,000-plus farmer suicides in the past 16 years may not have occurred, because he recognized that labour, capital and capital goods are all crucial to agricultural production in India

Columbia University has produced 95 Nobel laureates but it preferred to put Ambedkar above many of them