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Biopolitics, Politics, Post-colonization, Indian History
The Doctor and The Saint: Caste, Race and the Annhilation of Caste
Author
Arundati Roy
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Genre
Anthropology, Colonization, History, Politics, Gender, Sexuality, Whiteness Studies, Casteism
Theme
Roy exposes some uncomfortable, controversial, and even surprising truths about the political thought and career of India’s most famous and most revered figure, Mahatma Gandhi
Gist
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine both the political development and influence of M. K. Gandhi and why B. R. Ambedkar’s brilliant challenge to his near-divine status was suppressed by India’s elite. In Roy’s analysis, we see that Ambedkar’s fight for justice was systematically sidelined in favor of policies that reinforced caste, resulting in the current nation of India: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day by the caste system.
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