Anupama Rao on “Ambedkar’s Dalit” : minorities and the political
Another one of those remarkable Indian minds, extremely well trained and hewn, and made fine by the familiarity with the situational social, therefore theoretical, complexity, of home ground. Anupama Rao (MESAAS at Columbia U, also Comparative literature) on “Ambedkar’s Dalit”, immediately striking and astringent (in 2018 Radical Ambedkar – turning out to be an impressive collection). On situations of universalism [“produc/ing unconventional formulations of universality that expose the limited and exclusionay feartures of the former” – this is quoting from...