Volume-4 : Riddles in Hinduism

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches :

Volume-4 :  Riddles in Hinduism : An Exposition to Enlighten the Masses

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Religious

1. The difficulty of knowing why one is a Hindu

2. The Origin of the Vedas

3. The Testimony of other Shastras on the origin of the Vedas

4. Why suddenly the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be infallible and not to be           questioned?

5. Why did the Brahmins go further and declare that the Vedas are neither made        by man nor by God ?

6. The Contents of the Vedas: Have they any moral or spiritual value?

7. The turn of the tide Or How did the Brahmins declare the Vedas to be lower            than the lowest of their Shastras?

8. How the Upanishads declared War on the Vedas ?

9. How the Upanishads came to be made subordinate to the Vedas?

10. Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods fight against one another?

11. Why did the Brahmins make the Hindu Gods suffer to rise and fall?

12. Why did the Brahmins dethrone the Gods and enthrone the Goddesses?

13. The Riddle of the Ahimsa

14. From Ahimsa back to Himsa

15. How did the Brahmins Wed an Ahimsak God to a Bloodthirsty Goddess?

17. Appendix I The Riddle of the Vedas 
18. Appendix II The Riddle of the Vedanta 
19. Appendix III The Riddle of the Trimurti
20. Appendix IV Smarth Dharma and Tantrik Dharma
21. Appendix V The Infallibility of the Vedas

Social

22. The Four Varnas—Are the Brahmins sure of their origin?

23. The Four Ashramas—The Why and How about them.

24. Manu’s madness or the Brahmanic explanation of the origin of the mixed               castes.

25. The change from Paternity to Maternity. What did the Brahmins wish to                 gain by it?

26. Kali Varjya or the Brahmanic art of suspending the operation of Sin without           calling it Sin.

27. Appendix I The Riddle of the Varnashram Dharma 
28. Appendix II Compulsory Matrimony

Political
29. The Theory of Manvantara
30. Brahma is not Dharma. What good is Brahma?
31. Kali yuga—Why have the Brahmins made it unending?
32. The Riddle of the Kali yuga

33. Appendix I The Riddle of Rama and Krishna

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Pages: 362

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