About the Book: A Part Apart” is an exhaustive biography of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), modern India’s most iconic historical figure, born into an “unfit” caste. Drawing on every source in Marathi and English, Ashok Gopal details the unrelenting toil and struggle that forged this legend. The book seeks to answer crucial questions about Ambedkar’s life and philosophy: his eventual rejection of Hinduism, his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar, his self-perception as Moses, the intellectual streams that brewed his philosophies, the personal cost of his life of the mind, and his modernization of India with the Constitution. Crucially, it explores how he reinterpreted the Buddha’s ideas as saddhamma and what modern India owes him.