Introduction

This book is an assemblage of problems which are methodological in derivation relating to social injustices experienced through anti-caste movements, thoughts and epistemology. The challenge of encountering injustice before accepting into a framework forms the meeting point of these chapters. They do not obey the textbook definition of justice, least of all that of the much-plagiarised definition of social justice. They approach injustice as a social plane of immanence for all forms of relations-political, economic, historic, ideological, etc. The manifold reflections it produces in the form of challenges to freedoms of an individual or of a community has been the undercurrent of modern history in India. These chapters try to locate the vanishing traces of an unjust, impure nation unfazed by challenges to purify itself as the only possible ground for its integrity.