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description: What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world Annihilation of Caste is to India. Anand Teltumbde author of The Persistence of CasteB.R. Ambedkars Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important yet neglected works of political writing from India. Written in 1936 it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar  a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois  offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The worlds best-known Hindu Mahatma Gandhi responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.
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title: Annihilation of Caste
publisher: Blumoon Books