Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore

In this book, Monika Kirloskar—Steinbach studies how Bhimrao Ambedkar (1891—1956), W.E.B. Du Bois (1868—1963), Mohammed Iqbal (1877—1938), Pandita Ramabai (1858—1922) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861—1941) diagnose the epistemic oppression they perceive and experience, their analysis of the coloniality of being as its cause, and their proposals to counter it. Kirloskar—Steinbach explores how these voices seek to co—create a space in which they can experience what it means to be free from the c...