Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Born (April 14, 1891, Mhow, India—December 6, 1956, New Delhi), Dalit (Scheduled Castes; historically known as untouchables) leader and law minister in the Indian government (1947–51).
He was born into a Dalit Mahar household in western India and was ridiculed by his high-caste classmates as a child. His father served in the Indian army as an officer. He studied in institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany after receiving a scholarship from the Gaekwar (ruler) of Baroda (now Vadodara). At the behest of the Gaekwar, he joined the Baroda Public Service, but after being mistreated by his high-caste colleagues, he switched to legal profession and teaching. He quickly rose to prominence among Dalits, founding multiple newspapers on their behalf and securing special representation for them in the government's legislative councils. Objecting to Mahatma Gandhi's claim to speak for all Indians He authored What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables about Dalits (or Harijans, as Gandhi referred to them) (1945).
In 1947 Ambedkar turned into the law priest of the public authority of India. He took a main part in the outlining of the Indian constitution, prohibiting victimization untouchables, and ably assisted with controlling it through the get together. He surrendered in 1951, disillusioned at his absence of impact in the public authority. In October 1956, in despair in view of the propagation of unapproachability in Hindu tenet, he repudiated Hinduism and turned into a Buddhist, along with around 200,000 individual Dalits, at a service in Nagpur. Ambedkar's book The Buddha and His Dhamma showed up post mortem in 1957, and it was republished as The Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition in 2011, altered, presented, and commented on by Aakash Singh Rathore and Ajay Verma.