There are many intellectual biographies of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, but till now none has sought to reveal the personality of the man. They give information about Ambedkar, but do not talk about his interior life, his personal growth, or how he came to be the man who left such an indelible mark on modern India’s constitutional, political, social, and religious landscapes. The first of an ambitious two-volume biography of Ambedkar, Becoming Babasaheb traces his life journey from birth in 1891 to just after the transformative Mahad Satyagraha.