Navayana is a fiercely independent publishing house that focuses on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective.

Annotated Selections from The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables. EverBlue Edition. B.R. Ambedkar $ 25 Original price was: $25. $ 20 Current price is: $20.

‘Highlights one of the biggest denials of human rights still in existence on the planet. Among the Top 5 political comic books’ —CNN.com ‘An extraordinary book’—John Berger ‘Beautiful… unforgettable’—Arundhati Roy ‘Distinctive… challenging in all the right ways’—Joe Sacco ‘Evocative masterpiece’—The Hindu ‘Ambedkar’s plea for justice can be heard again ...

About. Deriving its name from B.R. Ambedkar’s anti-metaphysical interpretation of Buddhism, Navayana is a publishing house that focuses on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective.

In the Media. Republic Of Caste establishes Teltumbde as the cerebral annihilator of what he calls “the perfect design of the most exploitative and longest surviving man-made system in the world”.Ambedkar prescribed “dynamiting the dharmashastras” that he believed taught Hindus “the religion of caste”.In his writing and activism, Teltumbde has embraced the task.—liveMint

May 15, 2024 · Time’s flitting fast, my friend It doesn’t begin, it doesn’t end. The beginnings of Navayana are hoary, murky. What should we presume? The voices dying with a dying fall?

Nov 4, 2021 · We are also delighted to announce two new upcoming Navayana titles. Out this December will be Jalalul Haq’s The Shudra: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism—a philosophical autopsy of ancient Indian thought.It shows how Indian history begat superhumans and subhumans, how inequality pervaded Buddhism, Jainism and other self-styled heterodox Shramanic sects, even as they tried ...

‘After finishing the manuscript of Against the Madness of Manu, in which she positioned Ambedkar as the central figure for the women’s movement in India, she told her students and colleagues that now that the book was complete, she could die peacefully’ —Obituary, The Hindu ‘To read this book is to mine a world of layered scholarship and the rewards are diverse and rich.

Endorsements ‘What Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to caste India. Arundhati Roy’s introduction is expansive and excellent. S. Anand’s annotations have style and perfection’—Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders & India’s Hidden Apartheid ‘This edition, with …

Mar 3, 2014 · A nnihilation of Caste is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system.. In 1936, a Hindu reformist group invited Dr B.R. Ambedkar to deliver its annual lecture. When the group read an advance copy of the text of the speech, it found the contents “unbearable” and rescinded its invitation.