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.
 
The book On Violence is a compilation of Ambedkar’s writings and views on ahimsa, caste discrimination, religious violence, and war. Amid a world growing ever more violent, driven by both state actors and activist groups alike, Ambedkar’s message stands out as a resounding call to restore sanity. He was an insider-outsider, looking at violence from a position of power within the government as well as from an oppressed perspective of a Dalit and a religious perspective of a Buddhist. The articles in the book provide a comprehensive message of bringing about social change through democratic, constitutional and non-violent methods. Violence is a rational last resort for self-defence, justice and liberation from oppression. Violence should not be used to kill or scare, but to bring justice and stability to the country.