Ambedkar, Islam Aur Vampanth (अम्बेडकर, इस्लाम और वामपंथ)

B.R. Ambedkar's legacy has become a contested battleground. Two camps — one invoking the Meem-Bheem alliance, the other positioning him as a permanent opponent of Hindu society — both claim him as their own. Mithilesh Kumar Singh refuses that convenient fiction.

Working systematically through Ambedkar's own writings and positions, Singh demonstrates how clearly Ambedkar thought about both Islam and the Left — and how firmly he stood apart from both. The book dismantles, point by point, the rhetorical strategies each camp uses to appropriate a thinker whose actual views contradict the politics they are advancing. What Ambedkar wrote is on the record; what his self-declared heirs say he meant is another matter entirely.

For anyone who wants to understand what Ambedkar actually believed, rather than what contemporary political operators need him to have believed, this is the argument to read.