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Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, "Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) asks how a (world) community can be created to allow structural minorities equitable access to intellectual and material resources
Draws on a range of primary sources
Brings the work of W.E.B. Du Bois into conversation with his Indian contemporaries
Adds a novel historical perspective to recent scholarship on critical social epistemology
Diversifies current ways of doing Indian philosophy
Abstract: In this book, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach studies how Bhimrao Ambedkar…
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