The life, struggle and work of Dr BR Ambedkar has of late engaged wide-ranging scholarly reflections as well as biographies. In the last few weeks alone, for instance, such exercises have ranged from an account of expansive breadth to the specific focus of an academic study.
As early as Ambedkar’s lifetime, accounts were written of his life, including Dhananjay Keer’s biography which Ambedkar himself read and approved. But the historical distance of the last few decades offers more ways to revisit his life and its impact. If not new archival material, the current prism of looking back at Ambedkar’s life has to carefully navigate the multiple claimants of appropriating his towering legacy.
