B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book <i>The Untouchables</i>, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. <i>Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men</i> is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.
