{"product_id":"building-the-ambedkar-revolution-sambhaji-tukaram-gaikwad-and-the-kokan-dalits","title":"Building the Ambedkar Revolution  -  Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and the Kokan Dalits","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Gail Omvedt\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bhashya Prakshan\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2011\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 156\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9788192110707\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbedkar had his predecessors. The \"great\" among them he recognized and named as his \"teacher\": Buddha, Kabir and Phule. The lesser known he also honoured, attending their programmes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong these lesser known, uneducated but wise in the needs of his people, was a man who he named as \"Dadasaheb,\" was to be known as his older compatriot, the \"elderly\" (vayovruddh) Sambhaji Tukaram Gaidwad. Sambhaji was one of the main organizers of what what Ambedkar himself was to describe and try to memorialize as the \"liberation movement\" of the Dalits, the Mahad satyagraha of of 1927. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor those who were later to call themselves Dalits and Buddhists, the event was a landmark in their struggle, December 25, the burning of the Manusmriti, is today celebrated in Maharashtra as \"Indian Women's Liberation Day\" and has become, for many throughout India, \"Manavmukti Din.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMENTS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is rare blend of Scholarship and hard work. It will give the Dalit Movement a much-needed perspective and insight on a forgotten leader Dadasaheb Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad who played a signification role in the building of the Ambedkarite Movement. A Must read for theoreticians and practitioners of popular movements, in general, and the Dalit Movement, in particular.\u003cbr\u003e--- Prof. Vivek Kumar, Centre for the Social Systems\/School Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This engaging book brings alive the life and struggle of Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad, a stalwart of Dr Ambedkar’s Liberation struggle. In the Process, it recounts the movement of Mahad and beyond, laying bare the complicated story of how the (Dalit) steel was tempered in Maharashtra in the first half of the 20th Century.”\u003cbr\u003e--- Braj Ranjan Mani , Author of Debrahmanising History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne – The Kokan and its Mahars \u003cbr\u003eTwo – Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad \u003cbr\u003eThree – The Mahad Satyagraha \u003cbr\u003eFour – Mahad and Beyond – Fighting Manuwadi \u003cbr\u003eFive – Fights in \u0026amp; Around the Legislative Council the Starte Committee and Bhikaji Gaikwad \u003cbr\u003eSix – Fights in \u0026amp; Around the Legislative Council – Land \u0026amp; Labour \u003cbr\u003eSeven – Personal Life and Final Days \u003cbr\u003eEight – Gopal Baba Walangkar \u003cbr\u003eNine – Madke Buwa – Working Class Organizing in Mumbai \u003cbr\u003eTen – Ramchandra BabaJi More – Another working class leader \u003cbr\u003eEleven – Bhaiyasaheb – Son of a legend Yashwantrao Ambedkar \u003cbr\u003eAppendix I – 1894 Petition of Gopalbaba Walangkar \u003cbr\u003eAppendix II – Poem by Pandit Kondiram \u003cbr\u003eAppendix III – Resolutions of the Mahad Satyagraqha Parishad \u003cbr\u003eAppendix IV – Source Material\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Gail Omvedt \/ Bhashya Prakshan \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153705726320,"sku":"31071","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/31071.jpg?v=1793912932","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/building-the-ambedkar-revolution-sambhaji-tukaram-gaikwad-and-the-kokan-dalits","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}