About the Book: Ambedkar-Nietzsche Provocations: The Genius of the Chandala and
the Gospel of the Superman
How did the Manusmriti bind Nietzsche and Ambedkar in a tangle?
In the late 1890s, Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher and the greatest
egalitarian thinker of inequality, termed Christianity a "Chandala religion". In
the 1920s, B.R. Ambedkar, the champion of civil rights in India and an
unequalled thinker of equality, called Hinduism "the gospel of the superman".
The two world-historical figures became entangled in a unique interchange of
terminology. What was the "Chandala"—a generic name that refers to the
Untouchables of caste society—doing in Nietzsches writings? What was