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Ambedkar's Gita

As the Bhagavad Gita becomes an agent of a deeper sacralisation of the public sphere, it becomes necessary to read it from Ambedkar's perspective. Just as Thomas Jefferson--a deist, a proponent of the Enlightenment and a signatory to the American Declaration of Independence--took a pair of scissors to the Bible and cut out all references to miracles, time has come for us to ask: What would Ambedkar--an admirer of Buddha and John Dewey, a tireless advocate for the annihilation of caste and a signatory to the Indian Constitution--cut out of the Gita? What would Ambedkar's Gita look like?

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