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BOOK REVIEW: Ambedkar: A Life

By Shashi Tharoor. Aleph Book Company, New Delhi. Hard cover, 240 pp. INR 599

Feb 05, 2023
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By: Danish Hamid

Shashi Tharoor has written an accessible, engaging, if somewhat idiosyncratic and opinionated biography of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, one of India’s most revered figures, who surmounted his Dalit origins to become the father of the country’s Constitution. The reader can appreciate the circumstances that Ambedkar’s family lived in and how his fat…

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