{"product_id":"shudras-9780670092987","title":"Shudras","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The Shudras echoes Dr Ambedkar's question in \u003ci\u003eWho Were the Shudras? \u003c\/i\u003ethat he asked in 1946. More than 70 years later, Kancha Ilaiah and his team of authors revisit this issue to give Shudras a voice again' \u003cb\u003e-CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shudras: Vision for a New Path \u003c\/i\u003eweaves together multiple dimensions of the predicament of India's productive castes\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003ein the spiritual, social, political, economic, philosophical and historical spheres. It reformulates their current position as well as future pathways. It strives to provoke Shudras-including regional political party leaders-all over India to realize their unique historical role in fighting unequal caste structures. And it gives a call to resist Hindutva, in which they have no liberated, equal space with the Dwija castes. At a juncture when the Shudra castes are regionalized and the Dwijas have become 'national', the fifth volume of the Rethinking India series, in collaboration with the Samruddha Bharat Foundation, seeks to bring home the real picture of their marginalized status in all key structures of the nation. It posits that the emancipation and progress of the Shudras are vital to sustain Ambedkar's constitutional democracy and move towards socio-spiritual equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780670092987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40367458517173,"sku":"9780670092987","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2124fe01-ce0e-471c-8359-ad10126c46ef.jpg?v=1624981458","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shudras-9780670092987","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}