Babasaheb

<p> Born into a middle-class Saraswat Brahmin family Dr. Sharada Kabir met and got to know Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar as a patient riddled with life-threatening diseases and eventually married him on 15 April 1948 getting rechristened Savita Ambedkar. From the day of their wedding to the death of Dr. Ambedkar on 6 December 1956 she aided him in some of his greatest achievements-drafting the Constitution of India framing the Hindu Code Bill writing some of his most celebrated books including <i>The Buddha and His Dhamma</i> and leading millions of Dalits into Buddhism. Following his death she was hounded into obscurity by some of Dr Ambedkar's followers who saw her as a threat to their political ambitions. She re-emerged into public life in 1970 and got back to working on the mission to which her husband had devoted his life-the welfare of the Dalit community. Her autobiography <i>Dr. Ambedkaraanchya Sahavaasaat</i> was first published in Marathi in 1990. <p/> This English translation by Nadeem Khan unearths a much valuable and forgotten account an intimate portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. A tenacious fighter an outstanding scholar and an iconic leader Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was all that and more. Savita Ambedkar brings alive a different side of her husband: a man who wrote romantic letters dictated what she should wear whipped up delicious mutton curry played the violin and even tried his hand at sculpting. This is a book that humanizes Ambedkar as no other book has done yet. </p>