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Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is today among the most revered of Indians, his statues across the country second only in number to those of Mahatma Gandhi. All the major political parties vie with one another to claim him as their own.
To the Dalits, he is a revered figure who was chiefly responsible for outlawing untouchability and fighting to give dignity to the community. And, most of all, he is hailed as the father of India’s constitution.
In his new biography, politician and bestselling author Shashi Tharoor tells Ambedkar’s story with great lucidity, insight, and admiration, describing the many hurdles Ambedkar overcame in a society that stigmatised the community he was born into.
B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed offers a fresh and profound understanding of one of the greatest Indians that ever lived, with insights into disputes with other political and intellectual giants of his era, including Gandhi and Nehru, and his single-minded determination to invest India with a visionary constitution that enshrined within it the inalienable rights of the individual and modern conceptions of social justice.
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About the Author
Dr Shashi Tharoor
Dr Shashi Tharoor is an author, politician, and former international civil servant, who straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a fourth-term parliament member of Lok Sabha, representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, India, he previously served as India’s Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs.
During his nearly three-decade-long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as under-secretary-general during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organization.
Tharoor is the bestselling author of 27 books, both fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of several literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Crossword Book’s Lifetime Achievement award.
About the Chair
Saeed Khan
Saeed Khan is a cultural historian and commentator based at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches in the departments of History and Global Studies. His academic expertise includes Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Islamic political thought, and transnational identities. Alongside his academic work, he is a frequent analyst for international media outlets. Saeed is the founder of the Center for the Study of Trans-Atlantic Diasporas, a policy institute focused on ethnic and immigrant communities in North America and Europe.
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