Although B.R. Ambedkar has been widely recognized for his social, religious, and political reforms in India, he has not yet been acknowledged for his innovative revisions to Marxist theory. By re-structuring Marxist theory so as to replace the traditional economic base and social superstructure with a model that places religion as the base and economics and politics as the superstructure, Ambedkar imparted a flexibility to Marxist theory that allows for it to be culturally situated and, therefore, more appropriately utilized in various contexts. More importantly, by imbuing his vision of...