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100			_aGiri, Ananta Kumar _955954
245			_aTransforming caste domination and the challenges of structural transformations and transformation of consciousness: Ambedkar, Shankara and beyond.
260			_aJournal of Human Values
300			_a30(2), May, 2024: p.188-201
520			_aCaste is a multidimensional reality in history and society, and it has manifested itself through varieties of structures of domination which are simultaneously cultural, economic, political and ideological as caste has also been related in complex ways with structures of class and gender domination. These structures of domination have led to the annihilation of self and society. This led Ambedkar to challenge us for annihilating caste. For Ambedkar, annihilation of caste calls for the realization of each person as an individual and not just a caste person. It also calls for the destruction of caste privileges, discrimination and their scriptural legitimation. However, this call for annihilation mainly has been a structural project without enough attention to the project of transformation of consciousness—self and social. There is a hint of this in Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste when he urges us to realize each one of us as unique individuals beyond the holes of caste which is further deepened in his Buddha and His Dhamma. Transformation of consciousness is also suggested in Adi Shankara’s treatise on self, Atmastakam. The essay engages itself with Ambedkar, Shankara, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, among others, as they help us in the transformation of caste domination and present a new hermeneutics of self-realization and social liberation. It deals with the simultaneous challenges of structural transformation of caste as well as consciousness of caste at the levels of both self and society which can draw on multiple sources of critique, creativity and transformations in India and the world.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09716858231215646
650			_aCaste, Social domination, Structural inequality, Class, Gender, Cultural ideology, Ambedkar, Annihilation of caste, Consciousness transformation, Individual realization, Scriptural critique, Self-realization, Social liberation, Shankara, Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Hermeneutics, Indian philosophy _955955
773			_aJournal of Human Values
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