Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction. No Democracy Without Beef: Ambedkar, Identity and Nationhood
Fool's Errand. A Note on the Notes to and Selection from Ambedkar's The Untouchables
Preface
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 vegetarian?
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 Untouchable?
The Broken Men Theory: Beginnings of a Reading
References
Acknowledgments
Index