Ambedkar ! Des Intouchables chantent leur libérateur

Ambedkar !

Poétique d'une mémoire de soi

Guy Poitevin
in collaboration with Hema Rairkar

Edited by Bernard Bel

Paris : Karthala, 2009
ISBN: 978-2-8111-0216-6

A portrait of Ramabai. (N. Jogdand)

B.R. Ambedkar with his second wife Sharda Kabir on the day of their conversion to Buddhism. Thanks : Pradeep Gaikwad

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Sources et classification of songs on Ambedkar
An indexed database of the entire corpus with its transcriptions in Devanagari and Roman Devanagari scripts
Texts and context of the 2239 songs on Ambedkar
Texts and context of the 173 recorded songs on Ambedkar
Texts and context of the 208 songs collected in Mogara
Texts and context of the songs sur Bouddha
A labelled corpus of 4 songs including pitchlines
A table of the ISCII code

An index of the 173 recorded songs on Ambedkar
A memory unit of the 197 songs recorded in Mogara
A memory unit of the 337 songs recorded in Majalgaon
A memory unit of the 255 songs recorded in Bachoti
Miscellaneous examples from other corpora
An interview (in French) with Guy Poitevin on the cast system and the emancipation of the oppressed (World forum in Mumbai, January 2004)
Excerpts of the broadcast "L'autre monde des intouchables" (by Joseph Confavreux and Pierre Willer, France Culture on 4 September 2004)

GDS animators in January 2005.