The first of an ambitious two-volume biography Becoming Babasaheb traces Ambedkar's life journey from his birth in 1891 to the transformative Mahad Satyagraha in 1929. It takes a completely fresh look at Ambedkar's lived experiences and teases out the nature and character of the man behind the legend. It offers an extensive personality-driven narrative covering Ambedkar's life along with salient aspects of his contemporary legacy unfolding as a tale of remarkable tenacity which it chronicles in all its rich vitality.
All of Ambedkar's books and speeches are publicly available so large volumes will forever appear interpreting his writings and presenting his ideas. Meanwhile old myths and inaccurate 'facts' about his thought and life events even his relationships persist. Becoming Babasaheb has been written on the basis of entirely original archival research to set the historical record straight. A vivid portrait of the man in his times both volumes of this biography will present readers with a new Ambedkar the true Ambedkar.
There are many intellectual biographies of Dr B.R. Ambedkar but until now none has sought to reveal the personality of the man. They will tell you what he thought or what he wrote but remain silent about who he actually was his inner struggles how he felt. They give information about Ambedkar but do not talk about his interior life his personal growth or how he came to be the man who left such an indelible mark on modern India's constitutional political social and religious landscapes.