Ambedkar: Autobiographical Notes

In six autobiographical sketches written in 1935, B.R. Ambedkar, India s foremost civil rights leader, reminiscences his experiences of untouchability. In his introduction, Ravikumar, activist-theoretician of the dalit movement, tries to understand the complex manner in which the private and the public operate for a dalit person. He situates our lack of access to Ambedkar s private in this binary of the dalit self.