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Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Skaria, Ajay |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | This essay tries to frame one question, which at its most abbreviated can be posed thus: why does Ambedkar convert to Buddhism? Given Ambedkar's militant secularism, to ask this question is also to ask: what assumption of responsibility does that conversion enable which exceeds secular responsibility? This essay tracks how Ambedkar's religion questions both the liberal concept of minority, and the dissolution of the minor that is staged in Marx's critique simultaneously of religion and secularism. Buddhism becomes in the process a religion of the minor. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00856401.2015.1049726?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 465 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 450 |
| ISSN | 00856401 |
| e-ISSN | 14790270 |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2015.1049726 |
| Journal | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Volume Number | 38 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-07-03 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Cultural Studies Ambedkar Marx Navayana Buddhism Conversion Civil Religion Principle Secularism Civil Society Political Society Arendt |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science History Development Cultural Studies |
