Makers of Modern India: B.R. Ambedkar

Ananya Vajpeyi discusses her new book, offering a fresh perspective on the political traditions which informed the founders of the modern state of India, with a particular focus on the Indian jurist and political leader B. R. Ambedkar, who was instrumental in the drafting the Indian Constitution. Vajpeyi researches beyond widely understood Western political traditions and into the influence of India's own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years. Winner of The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (2012).

Followed by a book sale and signing.