Annihilation Of Caste By B R Ambedkar Summary

Book Review: Annihilation of Caste:The annoted critical edition by B.R.Ambedkar with The Doctor and the Saint

An introduction by Arundhati Roy

Annihilation of Caste is a prolific work by Dr. Ambedkar. It encapsulates the ideas of how caste and religion oppresses people - socially, morally and economically. Originally conceived as a speech for Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal, an organization of Caste Hindu Social Reformers, it was later published by Ambedkar himself, for the organization refused to allow him to give his speech in the original form. Powerful and scholarly, the treatise provides a thorough insight of how and why caste plagues the life of millions.There is burning indignation at years of neglect and suppression..

Arundhati Roy has written an introduction to this work of Dr Ambedkar's highlighting the continuity that the socio political setup during India's independence with contemporary times.“The Doctor and the Saint” is Roy’s book-length introduction to a reissue of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste. Ambedkar is not as celebrated as a political

Anand Navayana, the publisher of the annotated critical edition and reissue of Annihilation of Caste, wanted to introduce the literature — which had mostly only been read by the Dalit community and proponents of Ambedkar’s ideology to the masses through someone like Roy,who has been critically acclaimed for her works in popular fiction.In her introduction, Roy recollects Ambedkar’s description of “Hindu society in a chilling metaphor — as a multi-storeyed tower with no staircase and no entrance. Everybody had to die in the storey they were born