Dr Bhimrao R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) was one of India’s greatest intellectuals and social reformers;his political ideas continue to inspire and mobilise some of the world’s poorest and most sociallydisadvantaged, in India and the global Indian diaspora. Ambedkar’s thought on labour, legal rights,women’s rights, education, caste, political representation and the economy are international inimportance.

This book explores his lesser-known period of London-based study and publication during theearly 1920s, presenting that experience as a lens for thinking about Ambedkar’s global intellectualsignificance. Some of his later canon on caste, and Dalit rights and representation, was rooted inand shaped by his earlier work around the economy, governance, labour, and representation duringhis time as a law student and as a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics.

The Indian diaspora in the UK is the country’s single largest national minority. This volume connectsAmbedkar’s influence during his lifetime, and his legacy today, to this early phase of his career andintellectual life in London, and its immediate aftermath. It contains new material on the establishmentof the city’s Ambedkar Museum, explores Britain’s Ambedkarite movement, and charts the campaignto outlaw caste discrimination in the UK.

Publisher: Rupa Publications India

Author: William Gould, Santosh Dass and Christophe Jaffrelot

Pages: 352

ISBN: 9789361560798

Publication Date: 05 May 2024