Ramanuja
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History
Why Europe Pulled Ahead: Science, Printing and the Freedom to Criticise
A commenter argues that Islam, like the British, is invoked to explain India’s underdevelopment, that India once allowed freedom to criticise and produced thinkers who opposed caste, and that knowledge…
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Society
Freedom leads to freedom, not anything else
A reader-style reply argues that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers such as Ramanuja opposed caste discrimination, and that Islam’s arrival, not Hinduism, explains India’s relative…
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Society
Ambedkar, Ramanuja and Hope in Hinduism
A comment-style post arguing that Ambedkar did not see Hinduism as hopeless, that Hindu thinkers could criticise caste, and that the coming of Islam hindered India’s moral development.