1st Edition
Dialectics of Brahmanism and Un-Brahmanism Historical Probings
Preface
1 Dialectics of Brahmanism and Un-Brahmanism
2 The Brahmanic and the Shramanic Systems, and the Rise of Rebel Saints
3 The Brahmo Samaj Movement in Bengal
4 The Nineteenth Century of Enlightenment and the Rise of Jotirao Phule as a Social Revolutionary in Western India
5 The Rebel Feminists in the Late Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra: Tarabai Shinde and Pandita Ramabai
6 Chhatrapati Shahu: A Social Revolutionary
7 E.V. Ramasamy Periyar and His Self-Respect (Rationalist) Movement
8 Narayana Guru: A Seeker of Secular Paths of Liberation
9 The Rise of B.R. Ambedkar as a Rebel against Hinduism
10 Post-Independence Achievements, Contradictions, and Challenges: An Overview
11 Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
S.M. Dahiwale (January 9, 1946) retired as a professor from Savitribai Phule Pune University. He has authored four research-based books and two dozen essays in Economic & Political Weekly, Sociological Bulletin, Social Change, Man & Development, etc. He was an expert member of the Backward Classes Commission, Maharashtra (1993–1999). He received the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award in 2005 and was a nominated member (2010–2013) of the Scientific Committee for Intellectual Capital Management at Zanjan, Iran. He delivered over 100 lectures on sociological theory, the myth of Hinduism, entrepreneurship, the criteria of backwardness, and other topics.
