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Ambedkar’s Words: Elements of a Sentence-to-Come

I do not have any hypothesis or speculative imagery to offer with respect to B.R. Ambedkar’s line of thinking in syncopation with his intellectual formation; whether a line of maturation, a broken line – broken by an intellectual caesura or spiritual conversion – a line turned back on itself which is a tracery of an ideological retreat Instead, I consider it
worthwhile to schematise the long-term trajectory of Ambedkar’s use of language (mostly the use of English) in the following way: In 1916, with Castes in India, Ambedkar used words like a scientist who selects key symbols, which are also concept-words, to create higher conceptual units by combining these symbols. In 1936, with Annihilation of Caste, everything seems already plunged in a historical world of conceptual propositions.

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