" keeping in view the commonality and relevance of the marxian and ambedkarite idelogies, this book is an attempt to analayse the historical settings in whice marxian and ambedkarite thoughts and ideologies emanated and were received ; the position and role of caste and religion in the contextual setting and finally to study the class caste equations and difference in the hidtorical and modern contexts and to locate the class caste interests in the recent phenomenon called identity politics".