Contributed articles.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: caste and the need for philosophical humanism / Murzban Jal -- 1. Contesting brahmanical hegemony of knowledge: Jotiba Phule's path for alternative education / Umesh Bagade -- 2. Developing a Nietzschean genealogical critique of the metaphysical and moral underpinnings of the Hindu caste system / Rajesh Sampath -- 3. The communcal question in colonial India: a study of Ambedkar's approach / S.K. Chahal -- 4. Ambedkar, the unfulfilled democratic revolution and the politics of education / Dilip Chavan -- 5. Triveni Sangh in literature and the literature of Triveni Sangh / Pramod Ranjan -- 6. Caste, social exclusion and inequality in independent India / Rajendra P. Mamgain -- 7. Thinking identity through the Mahābhārata: story of Ekalavya / Daniel Raveh -- 8. Asking questions to the Indian left / Murzban Jal -- 9. Thoughts for the Indian left / Murzban Jal -- Contributors.