Ambedkar: the attendant details
/ selcted and edited by Salim Yusufji ; foreword by Urmila Pawar ; introd. by Bama ; photos. from the collection of Vijay Surwade
. — New Delhi : Navayana Pub. Pvt Ltd, 2017.
190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Foreword / URMILA PAWAR -- Preface / SALIM YUSUFJI -- Introduction / BAMA -- 1. O you gods... Go back to your homes / URMILA PAWAR -- 2. It was as if an anthill had broken open / DAYA PAWAR -- 3. L gazed at Baba for a long time... never saw him again / SHANTABAI KRISHNAJI KAMBLE -- 4. Seems he speaks gotmot with the gorasahib / BABY KONDIBA KAMBLE -- 5. His bill on contraception in 1938 was opposed by all / VASANT MOON -- 6. One candle can light another / VASANT MOON -- 7. L gathered the courage to interrupt Babasaheb / BHAGWAN DAS -- 8. May the lotuses awake / MULK RAJ ANAND – 9. I rewrote the blurb of his Pakistan' / U.R. RAO -- 10. It is a form of genius to be so individual / VINCENT SHEEAN -- 11. With a lungi, dressed in Madrasi fashion / PROF HELEKAR -- 12. I got him elected from Bengal / JOGENDRA NATH MANDAL -- 13. Was happy to meet and chat with educated ladies / MEENAMBAL SIVARAJ -- 14. Everyone should invest 10 percent of income / D.G. JADHAV -- 15. His bungalow came to be known as House of Justice / KARTAR SINGH 'POLONIUS' -- 16. He relished cooked radish and mustard leaves / SOHANLAL SHASTRI -- 17. You sent Shankaracharya to drive away Buddhism / M.O. MATHAI -- 18. He knew the botanical names of plants in his garden / NAMDEO NIMGADE -- 19. When Birla offered to ʻbribe' Babasaheb / SHANKRANAND SHASTRI -- 20. He loved the kachchha... with a waist band / DEVI DAYAL -- 21. I Cycled 25 kilometres daily to serve him / NANAK CHAND RATTU -- 22. Walking out of the waiting room of history / S. ANAND -- 23. Waiting for a Visa -- B.R. AMBEDKAR -- An abridged timeline -- Acknowledgements and sources
"This book is an attempt at intimacy with B.R. Ambedkar in his hours away from history and headlines. The aim here is to recover the ephemera that attended Ambedkar’s life and died with him—his pleasure in his library and book-collecting, his vein of gruff humour, the sensation of seeing him in the flesh for the first time, or of stepping out of a summer storm into his house and hearing him at practice on his violin. Here, we have his attendants, admirers and companions speak of Ambedkar’s love of the sherwani, kurta, lungi, dhoti, and even his sudden paean to elasticated underpants. We meet Ambedkar the lover of dogs and outsize fountain pens, proponent of sex education and contraception, anti-prohibitionist teetotaler and occasional cook.
The fragments that make up this volume enable the recovery of his many facets—a rewarding biographical quest."-- Back cover
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Ambedkar, B. R. 1891-1956
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