Who were the Shudras?
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B. R. Ambedkar sets out to trace where the Shudras came from and how they ended up as the fourth varna in Indo-Aryan society. Written as a historical inquiry, the book follows how this lowest category took shape in the ancient Indian social order and how it determined the lives of the people placed within it. Ambedkar tests the explanations offered by tradition against the historical record.
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The work is also concerned with the long fight of the Shudras for social and political rights. Its arguments bear on the caste system as a whole and on the discrimination that grew out of it, and they remain central to debates about justice in modern India.
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