Webinar - Critique as Tradition: Explorations of Dissent in Anti-Caste Thought

On the occasion of Phule jayanti, EPW organised a webinar to explore the various streams of critique that form the reservoir of anti-caste thought in India. Following Ambedkar's statement that Phule, Kabir, and the Buddha were his three gurus or teachers, the webinar focused on the intellectual bridges between various emancipatory personalities who have historically contributed towards keeping a critical and heterodox tradition of thought alive in India. Such figures and ideas sometimes need to be rescued from the erasure of our histories and the amnesia of our memories, and towards such a goal, this webinar tries to imagine alternative ways of remembering or commemorating the tradition of critical thought in India, which is exemplified by the life and work of Phule and Ambedkar in modern India.
Panelists:
Prof. Gopal Guru, (Editor, EPW)
Prof. Mukti Lakhi Mangharam (Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)
Prof. Umesh Bagade (Professor, Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad)
Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan (Assistant Professor, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru)
Contents:
0:00 - Intro
5:07 - Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
21:00 - Umesh Bagade
40:00 - Karthick Ram Manoharan
57:07 - Gopal Guru
1:12:00 - Discussion and Conclusion