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.
 
In On Women, B.R. Ambedkar delivers a searing critique of the oppression of women in Hindu society and its deep entanglement with the caste system. Drawing on Manu’s laws and historical shifts from paternity to maternity, he exposes how Brahmanical structures systematically dismantled women’s rights while creating contradictions around mixed-caste offspring. He later contrasts the spiritual liberation Buddhism offered women with the regressive constraints of Hinduism. Together this collection reveals Ambedkar’s unwavering vision for dismantling the social stagnation that binds both caste and gender.