Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who, concerning castes in India, said, 'Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse'?
ADr. B.R. Ambedkar
BPaul Brass
CJohn Dewey ✓ Correct
DM.K. Gandhi
Correct answer: (C) John Dewey — The quotation is from John Dewey, the American philosopher of pragmatism and education.
Explanation
★The quotation is from John Dewey, the American philosopher of pragmatism and education.
★The lines appear in his writing on democracy and education, on how societies carry forward worthwhile, trivial and even harmful inheritances.
★B.R. Ambedkar, who studied under Dewey at Columbia University, quoted these words in "Annihilation of Caste".
★Ambedkar used them to argue that the caste system was exactly such a perverse and dead inheritance that society must discard.
★Paul Brass is a scholar of Indian politics, while M.K. Gandhi sought reform of caste from within Hindu tradition.
★Note for the paper: the words are Dewey's, but they enter Indian debates through Ambedkar's "Annihilation of Caste".
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