List of books written by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar

 

Dr. B.R.Ambedkar is popularly known as the 'Baba Saheb' by his supporters throughout the world. Babasaheb's personal library Rajgrah had more than 50,000 books and it was the world's largest private library. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had command in 64 subjects. Read this article to know the list of books written by the Baba Saheb.

Books of Ambedkar

Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar is known as a world-class lawyer, Dalit political leader, and chief architect of the Indian Constitution. He is the most sought after the writer of the present era. In this article, we have listed some famous books written by Dr. Ambedkar.

Dr. Ambedkar had knowledge of 9 languages like Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, English, French, German, Marathi, Persian and Gujarati. Dr. Ambedkar's books are currently counted among most selling books in India.

 Here is the list of some famous books written by the Dr. Ambedkar;

S.N.	Books	Publication date
1.	Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development	1916
2.	Mook Nayak (weekly)	1920
3.	The Problem of the Rupee: its origin and its solution	1923
4.	Bahishkrut Bharat (India Ostracized)	1927
5.	Janta (weekly)	1930
6.	The Annihilation of Caste	1936
7.	Federation Versus Freedom	1939
8.	Thoughts on Pakistan	1940
9.	Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah	1943
10.	Mr. Gandhi and Emancipation of Untouchables	1943
11.	What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables	1945
12.	Pakistan Or Partition Of India	1945
13.	State and Minorities	1947
14.	Who were the Shudras	1948
15.	Maharashtra as a Linguistic Province	1948
16.	The Untouchables	1948
17.	Buddha Or Karl Marx	1956
18.	The Buddha and his Dhamma	1957
19.	Riddles in Hinduism	2008
20.	Manu and the Shudras	--

The Education Department, Government of Maharashtra (Mumbai) published the collection of Ambedkar's writings and speeches in different volumes. Apart from the Government of Maharashtra; the Ministry of Social justice also publishes books written by Dr. Ambedkar.

There are two most selling books of Ambedkar are the “Problem of the rupee” and “The Annihilation of caste”.  These two books are based on the economy of India and the social structure of India respectively.

Extract of the Problem of Rupee;

The book analyses the problems faced by Indian currency during a period when local businesses and the British administration were at loggerheads, it had a tremendous effect on the Indian currency’s value.

Dr. Ambedkar argued that the British government kept the exchange rate too much(overvalued) so that they could sell their goods in India. Worth to mention here overvalued makes the import cheaper and export costlier.

The book argues for the stabilization of monetary affairs and exchange rates. It eventually led to the formation of the Reserve Bank of India in 1935.

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