Ambedkar : The Attendant Details

This book is an attempt at intimacy with B.R. Ambedkar in his hours away from history and headlines. 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. Here | we have his attendants | admirers and companions speak of Ambedkar lov...See More