ANNIHILATION OF CASTE: AMBEDKAR

Annihilation of Caste is an undelivered speech written in 1936 by B R AMBEDKAR. The speech was prepared as the presidential address for the annual conference of a Hindu reformist group Jat-Pat Todak Mandal, on the ill effects of caste in Hindu society. However, the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal people found the content too radical and too critical of Hinduism. They asked Ambedkar to edit out some of the direct references to Hinduism and t0 its scriptures. Ambedkar refused and turned down the invitation to speak. Instead, Ambedkar self-published 1,500 copies of the speech in May 1936 and distributed it among the people. Today this text is considered a kind of manifesto of both anti-caste and Dalit politics. 

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