This book seeks to present the Ambedkarite perspective of Dalits in the 21st century. Explaining how untouchabilty started in India as religious persecution of the Buddhists, it describes the contradictions developed among different Dalit sub-castes, the atrocities against them, the creation of Adivasis, the nature of Dalit-Muslim unity, and the vanity of other backward classes—the Bahujans—who were degraded by Manu.
Further investigating into why ...
Though their condition was slightly better than in later times, the women during Vedic age were not generally educated and were married off early. It was the Buddha, who really liberated women. But Manu degraded women and the Shudras further to tide their outflow to Buddhism. When untouchability was started, after sixth century CE, Dalit Women, being originally Buddhists, were degraded still more. The Buddhist nuns who were in Buddhist temples ...