The writer is director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, and author of ‘God As Political Philosopher: Buddha’s Challenge to Brahminism’.
If we want to reform, we must acknowledge the barbaric acts our ancestors perpetrated against fellow human beings with a sense of historical guilt. We must appreciate what the Phules and Ambedkar have done to reform our society
The anti-meat and non-violence campaign in India was started by Jain Thrithankara Vardhamana Mahaveera. The Jain belief in non-violence was also anti-agriculture.
