Becoming Babasaheb Quotes

“Seligman described Ambedkar as ‘an excellent student and a nice fellow, moderate, broad, and able’.”
― Aakash Singh Rathore, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“Ambedkar boldly asserted that the essence of caste was the control of women’s sexuality—foremost, the practice of endogamy.”
― Aakash Singh Rathore, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“As Seligman would write ten years later in the preface to Ambedkar’s published PhD, ‘The value of Mr. Ambedkar’s contribution to this discussion lies in the objective recitation of the facts and the impartial analysis …’9”
― Aakash Singh Rathore, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“One he was especially attracted to was Brutus’s words in Julius Caesar: ‘There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
― Aakash Singh Rathore, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“Fond of Shakespeare, Ambedkar would later cite apt lines from various plays to fit the circumstances.”
― Aakash Singh Rathore, Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar