Open AccessClearing of the Ground - Ambedkar's Method of Reading
Author(s) -
Ankit Kawade
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
caste
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2639-4928
DOI - 10.26812/caste.v2i1.246
Subject(s) - manu , reading (process) , politics , hinduism , phrase , code (set theory) , sociology , clearing , epistemology , law , social science , philosophy , political science , linguistics , computer science , botany , set (abstract data type) , finance , economics , biology , programming language
This essay attempts to study and explicate the method of reading as operative in Ambedkar’s writings. The essay is organized around five thematic sections, each aimed at discussing a methodological concern guiding Ambedkar’s investigations. His engagements with the religious texts of Hinduism in general and the Manusmriti (The Laws of Manu or The Law Code of Manu) in particular have been used here to explicate the substance and implications of what has been described by Aishwary Kumar as Ambedkar’s ‘politics of reading’, a highly suggestive phrase that points towards the political as well as epistemic stakes of Ambedkar’s acts of reading.