![]() ![]() (emphases added, throughout this aticle, unless otherwise indicated.) That was one of his earliest significant works, a scholarly work written by the scholar when he was 25, much before he became a politician. The above is the concluding para (no.47) of a Thesis of 47 paras by Ambedkar: CASTES IN INDIA: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development, a Paper he presented on 9th May 1916 at an Anthropology Seminar at Columbia University. ![]() BR Ambedkar says: “ Those who hold the latter view will, I hope, find some food for thought in the standpoint adopted in this paper.” Referring to “a great deal of controversy” regarding the origin of caste, “as to whether it is due to the conscious command of a Supreme Authority, or is an unconscious growth in the life of a human society under peculiar circumstances,” Dr. ![]() This is part-1 of an article, being published to mark the Birth Anniversary on April 14, of Dr. Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email ![]()
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