![]() ![]() (1) The Vedas do not know any such race as the Aryan race. ![]() This book was among the earliest works by an Indian scholar to debunk the colonial absurdity of Aryan/Non-Aryan theory.Some extracts from the book are illuminating as to where Ambedkar stood on the question of caste and provide the much-needed course correction in terms of public discourse in India. ![]() His monumental book ‘Who were the Shudras?’ is one among many such scholarly works. ![]() Ambedkar mistrusted the Aryan race theory and constructed his own view of the social history of the downtrodden masses of India, several of his modern day supporters still fall back on the specious AIT and create confusions about India’s past to serve their ideology.Īs one of the pioneering social historian of ancient India, Babasaheb Ambedkar penned important academic works to examine the primary source of India’s caste. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, the chief architect of our nation’s constitution is now mostly remembered as the leader of the Dalits and is regrettably co-opted by individuals like Kancha Ilaiah and the Marxists who advertise him as their icon only to create social tensions. ![]()
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