Frantz Fanon And B.R. Ambedkar: A Comparative Study Of Their Emancipatory Thought

Abstract

Frantz Fanon and BR Ambedkar as theorists of the marginalised communities belong to the so-called ‘global south’. A comparative reading of both the thinkers aim in bringing them together in understanding their respective experience, personal history, and theorisation around the formation of the oppressed subject-hood. Experientially, Fanon and Ambedkar have a lot in common. Their thinking emanating from lived experience and an active life of learning and working diligently in their vocation, find sincere convergence. In the discussions around the formation of oppressed identity and subject-hood we find that Fanon and Ambedkar give due place to the socio-psychological diagnosis of racism and casteism. They have devoted a great amount of study into the genesis of these oppressive structures. This paper particularly looks at Fanon’s and Ambedkar's prescription for emancipation of that oppressed identity and subject-hood.