Global Icons- B. R. Ambedkar The Man Who Gave Hope to India's Dispossessed

Name: Global Icons- B. R. Ambedkar
Author: Shashi Tharoor

Auteur: Shashi Tharoor

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Shashi Tharoor

Engels
Hardcover
9781526173584
02 mei 2023
240 pagina's

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A short, digestible biography of this important Indian statesman, whose compassion and devotion to public standards should serve as a model for the politicians of our day.

Arguably, there is no more important historical figure in contemporary India, after Mahatma Gandhi, than Dr Ambedkar. All political parties seek to lay claim to his legacy. Yet he is not as well known to general readers globally as he deserves to be.

To be born into an ‘untouchable’ family in 1891 would normally have guaranteed a life of neglect, poverty and discrimination. Not only did Ambedkar rise above the circumstances of his birth, but he achieved a level of success that would have been spectacular even for a child of privilege. An heir to millennia of discrimination, he became the first law minister of a free India, in the most impressive cabinet ever assembled in New Delhi. Ultimately he achieved a set of set of distinctions few have matched: he successfully challenged millennia-old discrimination against Dalits (‘untouchables’); instituted the world’s oldest and farthest-reaching affirmative action programme for them and entrenched it in the constitution; promoted liberal constitutionalism in a traditionally illiberal society; and articulated the most cogent and enduring case for the principles and practices of democracy in a country emerging from imperial rule.

Shashi Tharoor’s biography stresses Ambedkar’s role as a constitutionalist and a builder of democracy as well as a social iconoclast. This book will be a starting point to encourage readers, writers and scholars to engage with Ambedkar’s ideas and fight for the principles he stood for.

A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination.

Ambedkar was born into a Dalit caste (the so-called ‘untouchables’), but his academic brilliance saw him study at Columbia University and London School of Economics. As a politician, he fought to overturn centuries of discrimination and promoted liberal constitutionalism in a traditionally illiberal society. He did more than anyone to articulate a cogent and enduring case for the principles of democracy in a country emerging from imperial rule.

This book is also a reminder of how far the practice of politics has strayed from the high standards Ambedkar set – of intellectual distinction, policy positions animated by serious scholarship, the infusion of moral values and the upholding of democracy for the many, not just the privileged few.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 mei 2023
Aantal pagina's: 240

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Hoofdauteur: Shashi Tharoor
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product breedte: 216 mm
Product hoogte: 16 mm
Product lengte: 138 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
Verpakking lengte: 138 mm
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