Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

Contents

No Democracy Without Beef: Ambedkar, Identity and Nationhood

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

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

S. Anand and Alex George

From B.R Ambedkar’s The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?

Part IV: New theories of the origin of Untouchability.

Chapter IX: Contempt for Buddhists as the root of Untouchability

Part V: The new theories and some hard questions

Chapter X: Beef-eating as the root of Untouchability

Chapter XI: Did the Hindus never eat beef?

Chapter XII: Why did non-Brahmins give up beef-eating?

Chapter XIII: What made the Brahmins become vegetarians?

Chapter XIV: Why should beef-eating make Broken Men Untouchable?

Part VI: Untouchability and the date of its birth

Chapter XV: The Impure and the Untouchables

Chapter XVI: When did Broken Men become Untouchables?

The Broken Men theory: Beginnings of a Reading

Alex George and S. Anand

Acknowledgments