The life, in the order it happened
He was born in 1891 in an army cantonment, into a caste whose touch was held to pollute. He died in Delhi in December 1956, seven weeks after leading several hundred thousand people out of Hinduism at Nagpur.
In between, he took degrees at Columbia and in London. He wrote a case against caste so complete that the reform society which had asked him to deliver it cancelled the conference sooner than let it be read aloud. He chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution. He resigned from independent India's first cabinet when it would not pass a bill giving Hindu women rights of divorce and inheritance.
The Poona Pact, and what he and Gandhi were to each other, are still argued over. On those the chapters give both cases and no verdict, and each names its sources at the foot.
5 times, a chapter pauses at a decision he was facing. There is no score and no right answer. Each option was one he could really have taken, and once you choose, the page tells you what he actually did and what it cost him.
After the chronology
A life told in order still leaves the questions that don't sit on a timeline: what reservation actually does, why the name for his community keeps changing, which of the lines quoted under his name he really wrote. Those get answered one at a time in the Archive.