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The descent of Man

Dr Haq also shatters several myths in this book

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The Shudra: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism

Saurabh Sharma
The Shudra: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism
Author: Jalalul Haq
Publisher: Navayana
Price: Rs 399

This book, The Shudra: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism, is a revised and updated version of the 1997 book The Shudra: An Extraction of the Human by Jalalul Haq, previously professor of philosophy at Aligarh Muslim University.

Like its predecessor, this confirms the status of the book as a seminal work, for it studies the construction of the caste-class divide in Indian society through several philosophical underpinnings in three detailed chapters, which can also be read as a brief history of Indian belief systems, folklores, and myth-histories that