List of Plates
Preface
A Note from the Author
BOOK ONE: LIFE
1 Laying the Foundations 3
2 Mounting the Podium 28
3 Scaling the Peaks 52
4 View from the Mountaintop 79
5 Triumph and Disillusion 100
BOOK TWO: LEGACY
6 A Life Well-lived 139
Ambedkar the Constitutionalist 143
Ambedkar’s Democratic Nationalism 152
Ambedkarism Abroad 166
Ambedkar’s Four Flaws 170
Ambedkar Today 179
Looking Back on a Life: A Coda 186
Acknowledgements 202
Bibliography 203
Index 217