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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Ji
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does
not lose his being in the society in which he lives....”
- Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Ji
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar' was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher,
anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, editor, prolific writer,
revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He became one of the first Dalit
(untouchables) to obtain a college education in India. He became the 1st Law Minister
of India. He became the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee. For his
contributions, he was awarded with Bharath Ratna.
Early Life and Education:
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar' was born on 14 April 1891 in Mhow town of
Madhya Pradesh, India. He was the son of Ramji Maloji Sakpal and Bhimabai. His
father served in the Indian Army at the Mhow cantonment. His family was
of Marathi background from the town of Ambadawe (Mandangad taluka)
in Ratnagiri district of modern-day Maharashtra. In his school and the society, he
treated as the untouchables and subjected to socio-economic discrimination. His
early life is the example of how the untouchability occupies the poor and
economically back class people’s life.
But still, Ambedkar Ji given the top most deserve penalty for those who
treated, treating and going treat as a way of implementing the law.
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Education:
• In 1897, Ambedkar's family moved to Mumbai where Ambedkar became the only
untouchable enrolled at Elphinstone High School.
• In 1907, he passed his matriculation examination and in the following year he
entered Elphinstone College, which was affiliated to the University of Bombay,
• By 1912, he obtained his degree in economics and political science from Bombay
University, and prepared to take up employment with the Baroda state government.
• In 1913, Ambedkar moved to the United States at the age of 22. He had been
awarded a Baroda State Scholarship of £11.50 (Sterling) per month for three years
under a scheme established by Sayajirao Gaekwad III (Gaekwad of Baroda) that
was designed to provide opportunities for postgraduate education at Columbia
University in New York City.
• He passed his M.A. exam in June 1915, majoring in Economics, and other subjects
of Sociology, History, Philosophy and Anthropology. He presented a thesis, Ancient
Indian Commerce. Ambedkar was influenced by John Dewey and his work on
democracy.
• In 1916, he completed his second thesis, National Dividend of India - A Historic and
Analytical Study, for another M.A.On 9 May, he presented the paper Castes in India:
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development before a seminar conducted by the
anthropologist Alexander Golden Weiser.
• In October 1916, he enrolled for the Bar course at Gray's Inn, and at the same time
enrolled at the London School of Economics where he started working on a doctoral
thesis.
• In 1923, he completed a D.Sc. in Economics which was awarded from University of
London, and the same year he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn. His third and
fourth Doctorates (LL.D, Columbia, 1952 and D.Litt., Osmania, 1953.
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Drafting India’s Constitution:
Upon India's independence on 15 August 1947, the new Congress-led government invited
Ambedkar to serve as the nation's first Law Minister, which he accepted. On 29 August, he was
appointed Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, and was appointed by the Assembly
to write India's new Constitution.
The text prepared by Ambedkar provided constitutional guarantees and protections for a
wide range of civil liberties for individual citizens, including freedom of religion, the abolition of
untouchability, and the outlawing of all forms of discrimination. Ambedkar argued for extensive
economic and social rights for women, and won the Assembly's support for introducing a system
of reservations of jobs in the civil services, schools and colleges for members of scheduled
castes and scheduled tribes and Other Backward Class, a system akin to affirmative action.
India's lawmakers hoped to eradicate the socio-economic inequalities and lack of opportunities
for India's depressed classes through these measures. The Constitution was adopted on 26
November 1949 by the Constituent Assembly.
During the debates in the Constituent Assembly, Ambedkar demonstrated his will to reform
Indian society by recommending the adoption of a Uniform Civil Code. Ambedkar resigned from
the cabinet in 1951, when parliament stalled his draft of the Hindu Code Bill, which sought to
enshrine gender equality in the laws of inheritance and marriage. Ambedkar independently
contested an election in 1952 to the lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, but was defeated
in the Bombay (North Central) constituency by a little-known Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar, who
polled 138,137 votes compared to Ambedkar's 123,576. He was appointed to the upper house, of
parliament, the Rajya Sabha in March 1952 and would remain as member till death.
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Developments after Drafts:
Ambedkar mostly concentrated on he growth of the Economy.
He also analyzed revenue in his PhD dissertation The Evolution of Provincial Finance
in British India. In this work, he analysed the various systems used by the British Indian
government to manage finances
In 1951, Ambedkar established the Finance Commission of India. He opposed
income tax for low-income groups. He contributed in Land Revenue Tax and excise duty policies
to stabilize the economy.
Ambedkar's views on agricultural land was that too much of it was idle, or that it
was not being utilized properly. He believed there was an "ideal proportion" of production factors
that would allow agricultural land to be used most productively. To this end, he saw the large
portion of people who lived on agriculture at the time as a major problem. Therefore, he advocated
industrialization of the economy to allow these agricultural labors to be of more use elsewhere.
Ambedkar was trained as an economist, and was a professional economist until
1921, when he became a political leader. He wrote three scholarly books on economics:
• Administration and Finance of the East India Company
• The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India
• The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and Its Solution
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), was based on the ideas that Ambedkar presented
to the Hilton Young Commission.
Conclusion:
Since 1948, Ambedkar suffered from diabetes. He was bed-ridden from June to
October in 1954 due to medication side-effects and poor eyesight. His health worsened during
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