Dataset 1: Sampled English-Language Digital News Corpus on Ambedkar's Media Representation (2015–2025)

Dataset 1 comprises a curated corpus of 206 English-language digital news reports, features, and opinion pieces published between 2015 and 2025. The dataset was assembled to support the qualitative textual analysis presented in Ambedkar’s Ascendancy: Reverence, Resistance, and the Politics of Celebritization. Sources include mainstream national outlets, independent digital journalism platforms, and Dalit-led and community-focused media. All items are documented in APA format, assigned numerical identifiers, and listed in full to ensure transparency and traceability. The dataset captures media coverage related to Ambedkar Jayanti commemorations, statue desecration and symbolic violence, anti-caste political discourse, and digital activism and diasporic engagement. It enables close analysis of language, narrative framing, visual symbolism, and representational patterns through which Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s public presence is constructed and contested in digital news environments.