Fool’s Errand. A Note on the Notes to and Selection from Ambedkar’s The Untouchables

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction. No Democracy Without Beef: Ambedkar, Identity and Nationhood 11
4. Fool’s Errand. A Note on the Notes to and Selection from Ambedkar’s The Untouchables 65
5. Preface 87
6. Part IV: New theories of the origin of Untouchability
7. Chapter IX: Contempt for Buddhists as the root of Untouchability 112
8. Part V: The new theories and some hard questions
9. Chapter X. Beef-eating as the root of untouchability 146
10. Chapter XI. Did the Hindus never eat beef? 153
11. Chapter XII. Why did non-Brahmins give up beef-eating? 183
12. Chapter XIII. What made the Brahmins become vegetarian? 199
13. Chapter XIV. Why should beef-eating make broken men Untouchable? 255
14. Part VI: Untouchability and the date of its birth
15. Chapter XV. The impure and the Untouchables 278
16. Chapter XVI. When did broken men become Untouchable? 323
17. The Broken Men Theory: Beginnings of a Reading 351
18. References 375
19. Acknowledgments 399
20. Index 400