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« L'inégalité graduée » ou la pire des inégalités. L'analyse de la société hindoue par Ambedkar*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Olivier Herrenschmidt
Olivier Herrenschmidt
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Université de Paris X (Nanterre).
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Abstract

Dr. D.R. Ambedkar (18911956) was not just a politician of grand stature and from the untouchable caste. He was also a scholar, whose consistent and innovative thinking has hitherto been neglected. Ambedkar's lines of force are presented here, both in relation to his analytical critique of the organic metaphor of the social body as developed in brahmin texts, and of his definition of graduated inequality, a specific Hindu form, for which he developed the psychological as well as the political implications.

Le Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (18911956) ne fut pas sculement un homme politique intouchable de grande stature: il fut aussi un savant dont la pense vigoureuse, cohrente et novatrice a toujours t nglige. Les lignes de force s'tablissent autour de son analyse critique de la metaphore organiciste du corps social telle que dveloppe par les textes brahmaniques, et de sa dfinition de l'ingalit gradue , forme hindoue spcifique, dont il dveloppe les implications psychologiques aussi bien que politiques.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (18911956), aus der Kaste der Paria, war nicht nur ein Politiker groen Formats, sondern auch ein Gelehrter, dessen kraftvolle, zusammenhngende und neuartige Denkweise stets vernachlssigt worden ist. Hauptschlich erwhnt werden hier seine kritische Analyse der organizistischen Metapher der sozialen Interessenvertreter, wie in den brahmanischen Texten dargelegt, und seine Definition der gestaffelten Ungerechtigkeit , einer spezifisch hinduistischen Form, deren psychologischen und politischen Auswirkungen er aufzeigt.

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Research Article
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 3 - 22
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1996

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