To Understand India, you must know the Founding Father of India Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

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CASTES IN INDIA:
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

by B. R. Ambedkar
The full Text is available online at the Columbia University website linked below.

From 1916 to 1956, From "Castes in India to Buddha and Dhamma by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar
This FB picture claims the very first book was written by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar in 1916 and he continued to write and publish many books until 1956. In between, not just books, magazines, news papers, periodicals, and incredible number of state speeches, lectures, major conference addresses and international talks and chaired hundreds and thousands of group meetings and high level governmental and social gatherings.
While I am not sure if the first published work was during 1916, regardless, the Book on "Castes in India" was one of the first major book he wrote.

I will visit this page and update about timelines and any other writings or published works that precede the above if there is any, and also make my comments about books later. Let us start with the first Book, "Castes in India", where do you find this book online or offline, and what is it about.
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 The following intro is copied from Link: Columbia University website
 Text source: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. 1. Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979, pp. 3-22. Edited by Frances W. Pritchett. Editing has consisted only of numbering the paragraphs and fixing a few typographical errors.

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CASTES IN INDIA:
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
by B. R. Ambedkar
Paper presented at an Anthropology Seminar
taught by Dr. A. A. Goldenweizer
Columbia University
9th May 1916
Text first printed in: Indian Antiquary Vol. XLI (May 1917)

[1] Many of us, I dare say, have witnessed local, national or international expositions of material objects that make up the sum total of human civilization. But few can entertain the idea of there being such a thing as an exposition of human institutions. Exhibition of human institutions is a strange idea; some might call it the wildest of ideas. But as students of Ethnology I hope you will not be hard on this innovation, for it is not so, and to you at least it should not be strange.

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This book is available in all major stores and online stores like Amazon and Barnes Nobel, you can also read it at "good reads". and perhaps with Indian book stores too.