Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Series editors’ foreword viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. List of abbreviations xii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 A politics of ventriloquism 24
9. 2 Fighting inferiority 55
10. 3 Touching freedom 79
11. 4 Touching space 106
12. 5 Ambedkar and the left 133
13. 6 Nobody’s people 164
14. 7 The internationalisation of untouchability c. 1939–1947 190
15. Conclusion 211
16. Bibliography 219
17. Index 234