Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143467786)

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Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar

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Babasaheb: My Life with Dr Ambedkar

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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 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: Nadeem Khan,Savita Ambedkar
ISBN-10: 0143467786
ISBN-13: 9780143467786
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
By Nadeem Khan
By Nadeem Khan
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Savita Ambedkar aided Dr. Ambedkar in some of his greatest achievements-drafting the Constitution of India, framing the Hindu Code Bill and writing some of his most celebrated books. Following his death, 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.

Nadeem Khan 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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