Throughout history, a handful of thinkers have unsettled complacency, expanded the horizons of justice, and transformed the moral imagination of entire societies. B R Ambedkar was one of them. His writings challenge, illuminate, provoke and liberate. They confront the deepest injustices of the social order while offering a radical, humane blueprint for democracy, equality and dignity.

ON SERIES brings together Ambedkar’s most urgent ideas presented thematically for a new generation of readers.

ON DEMOCRACY brings together Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s penetrating
writings and speeches that expose the fragility of India’s political
democracy in the absence of deep social equality. Collectively, these texts deliver a sobering message: India’s political democracy remains precarious and ultimately unsustainable unless caste is eradicated and social democracy—real equality as the lived foundation of associated life—is achieved.