THE ANNOTATED AMBEDKAR


Who were the Shudras?


B. R. Ambedkar, Who were the Shudras? How they came to be the fourth varna in the Indo-Aryan Society? Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1946.

Reprinted in Volume 7 of Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches (Bombay: Government of Maharashtra, 1990), pp. 3–227.

Chapter 1: The riddle of the Shudras

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Chapter 2: The Brahmanic theory of the origin of the Shudras

Part 1