Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

About Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an Untouchable family of modest means. One of India's most radical thinkers he transformed the social and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. He was a prolific writer who oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India's first Law Minister. In 1935 he publicly declared that though he was born a Hindu he would not die as one. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism a few months before his death in 1956. Arundhati Roy is the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Her recent political writings include Listening to Grasshoppers Broken Republic and Capitalism: A Ghost Story. S. Anand is the publisher of Navayana an independent press in New Delhi. He is the coauthor of Ambedkar: The Fight for Justice a graphic biography and has annotated this edition of Annihilation of Caste.