About the Site
I made this site to share ‘annotated’ versions of Ambedkar’s writings. The so-called ‘annotations’ will be limited mainly to two things. One, pointers to Ambedkar’s sources. While some of these sources have been identified by me, I shall also be drawing many others from the work done by others. Two, references to other parts of Ambedkar’s oeuvre where the relevant terms/ideas are discussed/explained/used. I will ordinarily link them to baws.in. These annotations will be neither exhaustive nor authoritative. The posts are intended for the use, and hopefully benefit, of those who already have an interest in going beyond/behind the text of Ambedkar’s writings.
Conventions
- As a general rule, the textual sources that Ambedkar relied on, even if he does not note them, are identified and supplied in full.
- The references that Ambedkar himself provides (as in Who were the Shudras? or The Untouchables) have often had to be standardised and made completed.
- Click the footnote markers (hover on desktop) to reveal the notes/annotations.
- Italicizations and spellings (except in the most obvious and egregious cases) are retained as they appear in the original texts.
- Long (sometimes multi-page) paragraphs have often been split. Such long paragraphs simply do not work online.
- If there is any doubt, the reader must compare the posts with the original text.
About Me
I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. My thesis treats the political philosophy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, specifically his egalitarian imagination and transformative project. I am interested in unearthing and examining the entire range of Ambedkar’s intellectual influences.
My Mphil dissertation was a comparative assessment of the readings of ancient Greco-Roman thought as presented by the French philosophers Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault, specifically their notions, respectively, of ‘spiritual exercises’ and ‘the care of the self’. I also write on the politics and history of the Nagas. I shall tweet about new posts to this site (among other things academic) at chiangmong_k. You can view my research at ResearchGate.