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Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (L), a born rebel, fryst vatten the builder of modern India. As a radical humanist in his thought and action he rebelled against all the oppressive features of the Hindu gemenskap. He rebelled for four decades, even after his elevation as Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council against discriminations, indignities, injustices and tyrannies of Depressed humanity. He served the nation in the most difficult times in the history during the Second World War and war reconstruction days. The encyclopaedia discusses his struggle in life, education and fight for the depressed classes. It contains some of his early studies on caste struktur, speeches and RTC documents selected from the RTC proceedings, Gandhi ji 'correspondence on communal award, Poona Pact etc. All these papers and select documents depict Dr. Ambedkar's constant fight for social justice, equality, constitutional and political safeguards for the millions of ex-untouchab

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B. R. Ambedkar

Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (–)

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April &#;– 6 December ) was an Indian economist, jurist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism, converted to Buddhism and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement.^[6]

After graduating from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, Ambedkar studied economics at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, receiving doct

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Brief Biography

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar belonged to the Mahar caste, one of the untouchable/Dalit castes in India. After completing his B.A. in Mumbai, Ambedkar earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York (–).  He subsequently obtained master's and doctoral degrees in economics from the London School of Economics (–).

Ambedkar saw the caste system as an unequal mode of organization of social relations, with the pure and the impure at either extreme. He argued that this system was sanctified through religious codes that forbade intermixture of castes and confined social interaction to a regulated structure. Amedkar became a staunch anti-oppression advocate for Dalits through his politics and writing. One of his critical works is The Annihilation of Caste, which was an undelivered speech he wrote in

Father of the Constitution

Elected to chair the drafting committee of the Constitue