![]() ![]() First published as a booklet in 1990 by the People’s Education Society, the book is a touching account of some of Dr Ambedkar’s most distressing experiences with caste during his lifetime. ‘Waiting for a Visa’ is a 20-page autobiographical account written by Dr Ambedkar between 19. For complete annihilation of caste, the speech elaborates on the need to annihilate the Hindu scriptures which continued to strengthen the caste system in multiple ways. These are the parts where Dr Ambedkar succinctly lays out the fundamental problems of caste, foundations of the Hindu religion, the technicalities of Hindu texts and the way in which Brahminism operated in the Indian subcontinent. ![]() Written for the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal, a social reform organisation of Caste Hindus, the speech remained undelivered because of opposition from the members to parts of the speech. ![]() One of the most important social and political speeches written by Dr BR Ambedkar in 1936, ‘Annihilation of Caste’ is a gate-way to anti-caste literature and sets the stage for conversations that question a Hindu’s religious and cultural belief system. ![]()
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