Ambedkar, Dalits And Social Change

Book Code: 1111025366021

Prof. Nandu Ram

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book titled Ambedkar, Dalits and Social Change is a collection of some of my already published and a few unpublishedessays.These articles talk about how Ambedkar has impacted Dalits and their assertiveness for human rights and dignity.Lead by Ambedkar’s ideas and thoughts, the Dalits are asserting for their rights and better their life. Because of their insistence for human rights and dignity, societal changes have taken place and are still ongoing in the wider context in India. This also impacts the life of upper caste, as they are bound to accept the Dalits as equal. Some of these changes are visible and while some are still in the process.All the articles are about the societal changes,describing the kind of transformationsthat are taking place and if the changes are related to each other

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nandu Ram (born on 28th July, 1946), retired as a Professor of Sociology, from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India). Besides a number of books, he has also published a number of research papers in Indian and foreign journals and contributed articles in several books, along with participating in numerous national and international seminars and conferences. His major areas of specialisations include Sociology of Urban Life, Social Stratification and Mobility, Ethnic Groups, Marginals and Weaker Sections of the society. His other published books are The Mobile Scheduled Castes: Rise of a New Middle Class (1988) and Beyond Ambedkar (1995), etc.

CONTENT

 1.  Ambedkar on Exhumation of Society and Culture in Ancient India ............................................................................................7
 2.  Gandhi, Ambedkar and the Dalits: Retrospects  and Prospects ...............................................................................................37
3. Abstraction to Substantiation: Ambedkar’s Thought  
     on Justice and Socialequauty in Comparative  Perspective ...................................................................................................... 59
 4.  Marginalised Groups and the State of Human Rights in India ................................................................................................. 83
 5.  Genesis, Mechanism and Growth of Caste System in South India ........................................................................................ 105
 6.  Studying Dalit Movements, Protests and Social
     Change: Some Theoretico-Methodological Issus .................................................................................................................. 159
 7.  Dalit Movements and Changes in the Caste System  in India ................................................................................................ 171
 8.  Migration and social Mobility in India: Some Theoretico-Methodological Issues-..................................................................-215
 9.  Migration, Social Mobility and Town – Country Nexus in North India ................................................................................. 225
 10.  Values and Changes in an Industrial Metropolis: The Case of a Slum in Kanpur ..................................................................247
11.  Housing and the Urban Poor in India:  A Hypothetical Refinement ...................................................................................... 267
12.  The Growth of National Capital Region (Delhi): Some Critical Issues................................................................................... 277