Ambedkar’s followers have kept his legacy alive in creative ways. One of those ways is to turn him into a million mass-produced statues. The Ambedkar statue is a radical and animate object. It has been sent forth into the world to claim the space both physical and virtual, public and private that is the Dalit’s due.
Dalits have used Ambedkar’s statue to assert their civil rights — to claim land that is owed them, water that is theirs, commons they are denied access to. The Ambedkar statue that is planted on the commons and rallied around always holds a book in its hand.
Is this book Annihilation of Caste with its liberating, revolutionary rage or Is it a copy of the Indian Constitution that Ambedkar played a vital role in conceptualizing the document that now governs the life of every single Indian citizen.
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