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Babasaheb Ambedkar Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was a reformer, politician, economist, and scholar, Indian jurist, educationist, philosopher, Buddhist activist, thinker, anthropologist and historian. A Social reformer who inspired the Modern Buddhist Movement and campaigned against social discrimination against Untouchables ( Dalits ), while also ...
Ambedkar as a student. In 1897, Ambedkar's family moved to Mumbai where Ambedkar became the only untouchable enrolled at Elphinstone High School. In 1906, when he was about 15 years old, he married a nine-year-old girl, Ramabai. The match was arranged by the couple's parents, in accordance with prevailing custom at that time. [24]
Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha, also referred to as the Depressed Classes Institute [1] was an organisation formed by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on 20 July 1924 in Bombay, driven by the goal of improving the educational standards for Untouchables [2] and address their socio-political challenges. [3]
Eleanor Zelliot (October 7, 1926 – June 5, 2016) was an American writer, professor of Carleton College [1] [2] and specialist on the India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables, and social movements.
[5] [6] Despite having a very high standard of scholarship and knowledge, Ambedkar considered himself a lifelong student, and as he became an ideal student, the government declared his school admission day as Student Day. On this day, essay competitions, oratory, poetry reading competitions on various aspects based on Ambedkar's life are ...
B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) Babasaheb Ambedkar's first birthday was publicly celebrated on 14 April 1928 in Pune, by Janardan Sadashiv Ranapisay, [10] who was an Ambedkarite and social activist. He started the tradition of Babasaheb's birth anniversary or Ambedkar Jayanti. [11] Ambedkar passed his matriculation in 1907.
Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.
Becoming Babasaheb: The Life is a book about B. R. Ambedkar written by Aakash Singh Rathore. The first of an ambitious two-volume biography, Becoming Babasaheb traces Ambedkar's life journey, from his birth in 1891 to the transformative Mahad Satyagraha in 1929. [1] It was published on 13 April 2023 by HarperCollins. [2]