Aishwary Kumar is professor in moral and political philosophy at the Department of History of Consciousness in University of California, Santa Cruz. He received an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University and earned his doctorate in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He taught history for twelve years at Stanford University.
<div aria-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden; position: relative; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 20px;">B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi are two figures who have had the most enduring impact on India.Their well-documented divergence and combativeness is met with either facile attempts at synthesis, or the forbidding of any attempt to study them in proximity. Resisting both these positions, Aishwary Kumar s Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy offers an archeology of the interminable tension between two visions of democracy, two ways of grasping at sovereignty, in the colonial world. With close readings of texts, statements and political stances, Kumar identifies the sites where the two thinkers come closest to each other,while also revealing their irreconcilable distance in thought. Their shared grammar of struggle becomes the ground of their absolute incommensurability. Radical Equality challenges us to think afresh the ideas of equality, justice, freedom and dissent.</div><div class="a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header" style="position: absolute; bottom: 0px; width: 401.203px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; opacity: 1;"><a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-declarative" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":"Read less"}" data-csa-c-id="7npkse-k9omyz-4i3tl1-xj0vur" style="color: rgb(0, 113, 133);"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse" style="background-image: none; background-size: 400px 900px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; margin-right: 0.385em; width: 7px; height: 7px; background-position: -94px -293px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); border-image: initial; border-width: 0px 2px 2px 0px; padding: 3px; opacity: 1; transform: rotate(-135deg); margin-top: -1px; margin-left: 2px;"></i></a></div>
