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Babasaheb: My Life With Dr Ambedkar

Babasaheb: My Life With Dr Ambedkar

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Author: Savita Ambedkar
Translated by Nadeem Khan

9780670096695 | PB | pp. 368 | 2022 | Penguin Random House

Babasaheb: My Life With Dr Ambedkar by Savita Ambedkar, she brings alive a different side of her husband — the outstanding scholar and iconic leader.

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Born into a middle-class, Sarasvat 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 as 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 The Buddha and His Dhamma, 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, Dr Ambedkaraanchya Sahavaasaat, was first published in Marathi in 1990.

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.

Author:

Savita Ambedkar
Translator: Nadeem Khan
ISBN:

9780670096695
Binding:

Paperback
Pages:

368
Year of Publication:

2022
Publisher:

Penguin Random House
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Contributors

Savita Bhimrao Ambedkar, also known as ‘Mai’ or ‘Maisaheb’, was a medical practitioner and the second wife of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, one of India’s most powerful social reformers and father of the Indian Constitution.

The translator has been a teacher of English since 1973. He was the founder-director of the Western Regional Centre of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, an autonomous institute run by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, from 2011 to 2018. He has translated well over a dozen books-mainly from Marathi into English-including Vishwas Patil’s celebrated Marathi novel Panipat and Avadhoot Dongare’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel Swatahala Phaltu Samajnyaachi Gosht. He is the winner of the Valley of Words award for the best-translated book for the year 2020.

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