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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2019 book by Arundhati Roy}}<br />
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|release_date = 2017<br />
|pages = 128<br />
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'''''The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: Caste, Race and Annihilation of Caste''''' is a book written by Indian author [[Arundhati Roy]]. It was published in 2017 by [[Haymarket Books]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roy |first=Arundhati |date=2014-03-01 |title=The Doctor and the Saint |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/the-doctor-and-the-saint/article5740369.ece |access-date=2022-09-01 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vij |first=Shivam |title=Why Dalit radicals don't want Arundhati Roy to write about Ambedkar |url=http://scroll.in/article/658279/why-dalit-radicals-dont-want-arundhati-roy-to-write-about-ambedkar |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Scroll.in |date=12 March 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref> The title of the book refers to [[B. R. Ambedkar]] as 'the Doctor' and [[M. K. Gandhi]] as 'the Saint'.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
In ''[[The New Indian Express]]'', reviewer [[Madhulika Liddle]] wrote: "As Roy explains in the preface to this book, The Doctor and the Saint looks at the practice of caste in India, through the prism of the present as well as the past.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Doctor and the Saint review{{!}} Vision and Politics |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2019/jun/23/the-doctor-and-the-saint-review-vision-and-politics-1992956.html |first=Madhulika |last=Liddle|access-date=2022-09-01 |website=The New Indian Express|date=22 June 2019 }}</ref><br />
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According to the ''[[Firstpost]]'' review: "The Doctor and the Saint is strongest when it sets about its primary task: to scrutinise the historiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and to remind readers of some inconvenient truths about the man, facts that make the Mahatma’s mythologists very uncomfortable indeed."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-19 |title=Arundhati Roy's The Doctor and the Saint: Strongest when scrutinising Gandhi, but falters on Ambedkar |url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/arundhati-roys-the-doctor-and-the-saint-strongest-when-scrutinising-gandhi-but-falters-on-ambedkar-6654181.html/amp |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Firstpost|first= Aditya Mani|last= Jha|language=en}}</ref><br />
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