The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar

Cosimo Zene is Head of Department in the Study of Religions Department at SOAS, University of London, UK. His publications include The Rishi of Bangladesh, (2002, Routledge), and a special issue of Culture and Religion on 'Religion in Gramsci' (forthcoming, Taylor & Francis).

1. Subalterns and Dalits in Gramsci and Ambedkar: A prologue to a ‘posthumous’ dialogue Part 1: The Emergence of Subaltern/Dalit Subjectivity and Historical Agency 2. Subaltern Social Groups in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks 3. Revisiting Interwar Thought: Stigma, Labor, and the Immanence of Caste-Class 4. The Other Prince: Ambedkar, Constitutional Democracy, and the Agency of the Law Part 2: The Function of Intellectuals 5. Notes on Q6§32: Gramsci and the Dalits 6. Limits of the Organic Intellectual: a Gramscian reading of Ambedkar Part 3: Subalternity and Common Sense 7. Living Subalternity: Antonio Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense 8. Race, Class, & Religion: Gramsci’s Conception of Subalternity 9. The Risorgimento and its Discontents. Gramsci’s Reflections on Conflict and Control in the Aftermath of Italy’s Unification Part 4: Dalit Literature, Subalternity and Consciousness 10. Hegemony and Consciousness - building Processes in Dalit Literature 11. Consciousness, Agency and Humiliation: Reflections on Dalit Life Writing and Subalternity Part 5: The Religion of the Subalterns/Dalits 12. Why does religion matter to politics? Truth and ideology in a Gramscian approach 13. Intellectuals and Subalterns in the Context of Religion 14. The Place of ‘Practical Spirituality’ in the Lives of the Dalit Buddhists in Pune 15. Conclusion: Which Itineraries for Dalits, Subalterns and Intellectuals?