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Understanding power through caste: Dr. Ambedkar’s contribution to the sociology of law

Dr Babasaheb’s understanding of Indian society was pivotal: he was prescient in the dangers that loomed ahead, even after drafting the Indian Constitution; because caste-based inequality remains deeply entrenched in society and the post-Independence state did not go much beyond providing formal equality to the lower castes and other marginalised communities, Dr. Ambedkar was acutely aware of the continuing presence of upper-caste hegemony from society to politics and from culture to the economy

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“Is the Left ready to receive a new Ambedkarite wound?”

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Meet the Muslim princess Zaida, Spanish ancestor of the British royal family

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“Ambedkar broke any prevailing consensus on nationhood”: Soumyabrata Choudhury

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Guilty men of the two-nation theory: A Hindutva project borrowed by Jinnah

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Unofficial Renaming of Akbar Road: Another Attempt at Meddling With the History

A poster that read ‘Maharana Pratap Road’ was found...

Remembering the Mughals with Catherine B Asher

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