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Turning Ambedkar Upside Down: The Fracture of a Revolutionary Imagination
Recent scholarship has often dismissed Ambedkarite masses as “merely emotional” or irrational, framing post-Ambedkar Dalit movements as deviations from his “original” vision. Such critiques echo a broader tendency to discredit symbolic assertions of Dalit dignity as distractions from “real” issues.Apr 13 2025