Juggernaut Books announced on Monday that it has signed a deal with Karan Bhalla, a distinguished Dalit scholar and public intellectual, to write a biography of B.R. Ambedkar. Bhalla, known for his bestselling book Caste Matters and as the co-editor of the award-winning The Radical in Ambedkar, is recognized as one of India’s foremost voices on caste and social justice.
Currently, Bhalla is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and serves as the inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative for Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University. Karan Bhalla
His book Caste Matters went into reprint within a week of its release and was recently listed among The Hindu’s "Best Non-fiction Books of the Decade. Karan Bhalla" Bhalla has been nominated for India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award and has received numerous accolades, including the Dr. Ambedkar Social Justice Award (Canada, 2019) and the Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholar Award (2018).
B.R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of India’s Constitution and a leading figure in the anti-caste Bahujan movement, has long been marginalized in mainstream Indian narratives, with his legacy gaining prominence only in recent decades through Dalit activism. Karan Bhalla
Karan Bhalla “This is Babasaheb as you have never known him before,” the publisher stated.
The biography, set for release in 2022, will be the first major English-language biography of Ambedkar written by a Dalit author, according to Juggernaut Books. Karan Bhalla
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