Had There been no Ambedkar

Had there Been No Ambedkar is an English version of popular Hindi book authored by world renowned Buddhist monk-scholar Dr. Bhadant anand Kausalyayan, when he left his office as Head and professor of the Department of Hindi in the Vidyalankara Pririvena (now university), Colombo, Sri Lanka and assumed an incumbency of the Bhikkhu Niwas, Deeksha Bhoomi, Nagpur. India, the internationally known sacred place of Dr. ambedkar’s mass Dhamma (Buddhism) adoption on 14th October 1956. Dedicated to the Dhammaguru Chandramani Mahasthavira, the preceptor of Babasaheb’s Dhamma Deeksha ceremony this small book was the author’s first and lasting befitting tribute to the memory of Babasaheb Ambedkar issues forth from Dhammabhoomi in 1969, the year of his taking abode there. Divided in to twenty-five little chapters this monograph beautifully, lucidly and movingly presents Dr. ambedkar’s life and struggle from his birth to the end. Those students, readers, scholars and intellectuals, who find hard and long to undergo the studies of voluminous writings and literature on Dr. ambedkar will be benefited by spending a short while to go through this and get a glimpse of deep and powerful portrait of Babasaheb Ambedkar. The origin of this production had an interesting anecdote to tell.