One place for his life and work
Why this website exists
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar wrote and spoke on caste, economics, law, religion, democracy, women's rights and labour for more than forty years. His work survives in government volumes, university archives, museums, old newspapers and memorials — but it is spread out and hard to explore. In 2026 India's Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment described his writings and records as "spread across libraries, memorials, archives, and fragmented digital sources" SIH 2026 brief SIH26096.
This website is an independent initiative to bring it together: his whole life told simply, every work catalogued, his collected writings searchable page by page, and the Constitution explained for everyone. It is free, and will stay free.
How we use sources
- Every fact links to its source with a small chip like this Writings and Speeches.
- We prefer his own words (the government-published Writings and Speeches), official records such as the Constituent Assembly Debates, and university archives — then respected biographies and journalism.
- When sources disagree about a date or a detail, we say so and show each one.
- We never publish a quote unless we found it in a primary source.
- The full research notes behind each chapter are public in our GitHub repository.
Copyright and reuse
- Dr. Ambedkar died in 1956. Under Indian copyright law (life of the author plus 60 years), his own writings entered the public domain in India in 2017.
- Photographs and documents keep their own licences, shown next to each one. We only use images that are public domain or freely licensed.
- Original text written for this website is shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0: you may share and adapt it, with credit, under the same licence. The website's code is open source.
- If you hold rights to something we have used and want it changed or removed, please contact us.
AI on this website
The "Ask the Archive" feature searches his writings and, when connected, uses an AI model to write short summaries of the pages it finds. Summaries are always labelled, always cite the exact pages, and are told to say "the sources don't answer this" rather than guess. Always check the original before you quote.
What's next
- Hindi and Marathi versions of the life story.
- A searchable Hindi library of the 40-volume सम्पूर्ण वाङ्मय.
- Audio versions of every chapter.