B.R. Ambedkar: His Relevance Today

Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a person of many parts, an institution in himself. He was a legal luminary, social reformer, redeemer of the minorities and down-trodden, prolific writer and architect of our Constitution. As an original thinker and interpreter of Indian heritage, his thoughts have great relevance today. This volume makes an objective assessment of the man and his ideology by a host of scholars and social scientists. Each contributor has studies one aspect of his multifaceted personality in depth. The range of study spreads over Dr. Ambedkar’s ideas and ideals on education, economics, labour, women, monetary system, minorities problem industrial labour, and Dalit movement of which he was the philosopher-guide. In all, the study projects the authentic image of the social revolutionary leader to whom we owe our Constitution-based democracy and slow but steady march towards social equity.