![]() ![]() The fragments that make up this volume enable the recovery of his many facets-a rewarding biographical quest. We meet Ambedkar the lover of dogs and outsize fountain pens, proponent of sex education and contraception, anti-prohibitionist teetotaler and occasional cook. Here, we have his attendants, admirers and companions speak of Ambedkar s love of the sherwani, kurta, lungi, dhoti, and even his sudden paean to elasticated underpants. The aim here is to recover the ephemera that attended Ambedkar s life and died with him-his pleasure in his library and book-collecting, his vein of gruff humour, the sensation of seeing him in the flesh for the first time, or of stepping out of a summer storm into his house and hearing him at practice on his violin. Ambedkar in his hours away from history and headlines. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. ![]() ![]() This book is an attempt at intimacy with B.R. Ambedkar Dhananjay Keer 1987 Annihilation of Caste Dr B.R. ![]()
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