ABSTRACT
According to Ambedkar, one can think of the Mahad Satyagraha as equal to the French Revolution. One can think of them as equal analogically; at the same time, one must think of them as equal and incomparable. The analogical schema first: by virtue of their respective institutions of the ‘norm of equality’, Mahad and the French Revolution become analogous, but the comparison gains its real efficacy from the analogy of truth-effects that attaches to their respective discursive ensembles. If Ambedkar is not making the trivial point of similar forms of institution but that the two conjunctures are traversed by comparable truth-effects despite vast differences of the institution of historical discourses, then the further significance of this analogical schema lies in its common function in both cases that it consolidates the history beyond and against the old regime in the name of a new regime of truth-effect(s).
