Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches -Volume- 7 :
*1. WHO WERE THE SHUDRAS? How They Came to be The Fourth Varna in The Indo- Aryan Society
*2. THE UNTOUCHABLES: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables
(Contents)
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BOOK 1-
Who were the Shudras? How they came to be the fourth varna in the Indo-Aryan Society?
I. The Riddle of The Shudras
II. The Brahmanic Theory of The Origin of The Shudras
III.The Brahmanic Theory of The Status of The Shudras
IV. Shudras Versus Aryans
V. Aryans against Aryans
VI. Shudras and Dasas
VII. The Shudras were Kshatriyas
VIII.The number of Varnas, Three OR Four?
IX. Brahmins versus Shudras
X. The Degradation of the Shudras
XI. The Story of Recociliation
XII. The Theory in the Crucible
APPENDICES: I to VI
MAPS: I to IV
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BOOK 2-
The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?
Part I: A Comparative Survey
1. Untouchability among Non- Hindus
2. Untouchability among Hindus
Part II: Problem of Habitat
3. Why do the Untouchables live outside the village
4. Are the Untouchables Broken Men?
5. Are there parallel cases?
6. How did separate settlements for Broken men disappear elsewhere?
Part III: Old Theories of the Origin of Untouchability
7. Racial difference as the origin of Untouchability
8. Occupational origin of Untouchability
Part IV: New Theories of The Origin of Untouchability
9. Contempt for Buddhists as the root of Untouchability
10. Beef-eating as the root of Untouchability
Part V: The New Theories and some hard Questions
11. Did the Hindus Never Eat Beef?
12. Why did Non-Brahmins give up beef-eating?
13. What made the Brahmins become Vegetarians?
14. Why should beef-eating make broken men untouchables?
Part VI: Untouchability and the death of its Birth
15. The Impure and the Untouchables
16. When did Broken men Become Untouchables?
INDEX
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