DHAMMA PITAK

Digital Library

Dhamma Pitak is the free digital encyclopedia of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s writings, speeches, and literary works. The same name, the same gold mark, and the same library live on this website and on the Dhamma Pitak phone app.

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Dhamma Pitak

On the web you read in a wide, calm room — header, library grid, and footer. In the Dhamma Pitak app the same volumes open with tabs and the same page reader (next, previous, and swipe). Sign in once; bookmarks and progress follow you.

Our mission is to preserve, digitize, and freely share these works so constitutional values, social justice, and the path of Dhamma remain living guides.

This website includes the library, listening room, stories, quiz, idea lineage, saved passages, trilingual navigation, and a responsive reading room.

Trilingual reading

English, Marathi, and Hindi in Dhamma Pitak.

Audio & stories

Narration from the same Dhamma Pitak library.

Smart search

Themes, quotes, and pages across the shelf.

One account

Bookmarks in the app appear here, and the other way around.

The Dhamma Pitak mark

The official logo unites an anchor with a ship’s helm shaped as the Ashtachakra (Dhamma Chakra) — ideological steadiness and the path of Dhamma.

The Anchor — Ideological Steadiness

Just as an anchor keeps a drifting ship steady and safe in a storm, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s literature, his thoughts, and his constitutional values give us ideological and intellectual steadiness in any crisis of life.

The Helm and the Ashtachakra — The Path of Dhamma

The ship’s helm (steering wheel) at the centre of the anchor is not merely a tool that shows direction; its design represents the Ashtachakra of Buddhist Dhamma. The spokes of this wheel symbolize the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path (wisdom / Pradnya, morality / Sheel, compassion / Karuna, and the rest), which Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar accepted and spread.

Steadiness and direction

This means that Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts (the Anchor) hold us firmly to our core values and keep us steady, while the path of Buddha Dhamma he gave us (the helm as Ashtachakra) helps us walk in the right direction of truth, justice, and progress.

This website and the Dhamma Pitak app are a means to bring these invaluable writings and speeches of Dr. Ambedkar to you, so that your life, too, may receive the steadiness of knowledge and the right direction for progress.

Dhamma Pitak

Digital Library

The Dhamma Pitak app is the same encyclopedia in your pocket — official name, official logo, one library.

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On your phone, use Share → Add to Home Screen (Safari/Chrome). The full library lives on this website.

Sources

Reference texts from BAWS — Dr. Ambedkar Foundation (Government of India) and the Government of Maharashtra. Publicly available volumes, gathered in one place.

Content courtesy

Reference texts and volume contents are sourced from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches (BAWS), published by the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation (Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India) and the Government of Maharashtra.

The PDFs currently in the library are publicly available on Google and other open sources. They are gathered here so readers in India can access them more easily in one place.

We plan to add more publicly available books over time. We do not claim ownership of third-party copyrighted works; content is presented for non-commercial educational and research study under Fair Dealing principles.

Source texts courtesy of the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation and official publications of the Government of Maharashtra. The digital reading room is independently operated.

This platform is free. To support digitisation, write to us.

The main information pages explain the purpose of the project, how to use the site, privacy, terms, and ways to contact the team.

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