Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. More

More had major ideological disagreement with Ambedkar.”ĥ I am afraid that I have nowhere explicitly stated such a position, nor have I implied this to be the case. We do not find any examples in the memoir which suggest R. However, this assertion lacks substantial evidence. More’s decision to join the Communist party has been interpreted by Anupama Rao as a rebellion against Ambedkar’s politics. Ĥ At the beginning of paragraph 17, the reviewers assert that, “R. This is also why it is necessary to correct a misleading and fundamentally incorrect assertion by the reviewers. Elsewhere (Rao 2020), I have noted that the English text draws on interviews with, and material from the private collection of scholars and activists who have a rich and enduring association with Maharashtra’s anticaste movement, and that we opted to omit documents of the Communist Party (Marxist) that are part of the public domain, and therefore easily accessible.ģ The SAMAJ review makes clear that there is an important conversation to be had about the trajectories of anticaste thought and Marxism in late colonial and postcolonial India, and their ongoing impact on political thought and practice. More’s autobiography and Satyendra More’s biography of his father. It comprises my Introduction, a Translator’s Note by Wandana Sonalkar, and translations of R.B. More by scholars with keen knowledge of Ambedkarite politics and the Communist left in Maharashtra, and of Bombay in particular.Ģ The book is the result of an extended collaboration with R.B. 1 The following is a response to the extended review of Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. More