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| ambedkar biography: The Childhood of Ambedkar | The Life and Times Biography of B. R. Ambedkar Mahesh Dutt Sharma, 2024-05-10 The Childhood of Ambedkar offer an intimate look into the formative years of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, one of modern India’s most influential figures and the chief architect of its Constitution. Born into the oppressed Mahar caste, Ambedkar faced discrimination and prejudice from a very young age, shaping his lifelong struggle against the injustices of the caste system. This book chronicles Ambedkar’s early life, from his birth in a small village to his pursuit of education despite overwhelming societal barriers. Readers will gain profoun insights into the challenges he faced, the resilience he demonstrated, and the seeds of his future activism that took root during his childhood. Drawing from Ambedkar’s own writings and first-hand accounts, the narrative brings to life the harsh realities of untouchability, the kindling of his thirst for knowledge and the support of allies like the progressive Maharaja Sayajirao III of Baroda. Readers will not only understand the man behind the Constitution but also gain a deeper appreciation for the on-going battle against prejudice and injustice in India and beyond. |
| ambedkar biography: A Complete Biography of Dr. Ambedkar Pankaj Kishore, 2023-07-26 Embark on the journey of a social reformer with A Complete Biography of Dr. Ambedkar, tracing the life and legacy of the architect of the Indian Constitution. Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar is considered the Messiah of the Dalits in India. In 1947, the Constituent Assembly appointed him as the chairman of the Drafting Committee constituted for drafting the Constitution for independent India. He played a key role in building the Constitution. He was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow (near Indore), a small town of present Madhya Pradesh. He was the fourteenth child of Subedar Ramji and Bhimabai Sakpal. Being from the Maharcaste, he was treated as an ‘untouchable’. His father and his grandfather had served in the British Army. Good schools were arranged by the then government for the education of the children of all military personnel. Therefore, despite being from a low caste, he got a good education. In 1937, Dr Ambedkar introduced a bill to end the ‘Khoti’ practice of Mahars working as official slaves in the Konkan region. When India became independent in 1947, he adorned the post of the Minister of Law. He had made a clarion call—‘Lost rights are never regained by begging... but by relentless struggle’. For his remarkable work, he was posthumously awarded India’s highest civilian award ‘Bharat Ratna’ in the year 1990. |
| ambedkar biography: Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar: Inspirational Biographies For Children S.K. Agrawal, 2021-02-01 Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar: Inspirational Biographies for Children by S.K. Agrawal: This book is a biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, an Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer who played a key role in the drafting of the Indian constitution. The book explores his early life, his education, and his advocacy for social justice and equality, as well as his legacy as a champion of the marginalized and oppressed. Key Aspects of the Book Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar: Inspirational Biographies for Children: Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar: The book provides an in-depth look at the life of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar, from his childhood to his accomplishments as a jurist, economist, and social reformer. Advocacy for Social Justice and Equality: The book explores Ambedkar's advocacy for social justice and equality, highlighting his role in promoting the rights of the marginalized and oppressed. Legacy: The book also explores Ambedkar's legacy as a leader and reformer, and his impact on Indian society and politics. S.K. Agrawal is an Indian writer and educator who has written several biographies of notable historical figures, including Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar: Inspirational Biographies for Children, which explores the life and contributions of an Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer who played a key role in the drafting of the Indian constitution. |
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| ambedkar biography: Annihilation of Caste B.R. Ambedkar, 2014-10-07 B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition in The Doctor and the Saint, examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar's anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality. |
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| ambedkar biography: The Foresighted Ambedkar Anurag Bhaskar, 2024-04-11 ‘A great man in Indian politics’ —Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on Dr Ambedkar Dr Ambedkar’s role in the cause of social emancipation has been researched and written about extensively. His part in the drafting of the Indian Constitution between 1946 and 1950 has also received considerable attention. In The Foresighted Ambedkar, Anurag Bhaskar argues that India’s Constitution was drafted not just between 1946 and 1950 but over the course of four decades. Dr Ambedkar was the only person to have been involved at all the stages related to the drafting of the Indian constitutional document since 1919. These stages bear the imprint of his contribution and role. This book seeks to focus on Dr Ambedkar’s influence on the Indian constitutional discourse from 1919, when he entered public life, until the actual writing of the Constitution and even beyond. Covering the different constitutional moments as and when they happened, it highlights Dr Ambedkar’s role in those moments. A seminal work of intellectual and constitutional history, this volume demonstrates why Dr Ambedkar is rightly called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’. |
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| ambedkar biography: A Philosophy of Autobiography Aakash Singh Rathore, 2018-10-09 This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi), as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar, Pawar, Angelou, Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies, the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body, a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages, with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh, spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Waiting for a Visa, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Moveable Feast, Night, Baluta, My Story, Sun and Steel, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid, bold and authoritative, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, gender studies, political philosophy, media and popular culture, social exclusion, and race and discrimination studies. |
| ambedkar biography: The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar Valerian Rodrigues, 2004-09-02 Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) is both the towering symbol of protest against age-old and contemporary forms of exploitation in India and a scholar-sage proposing fair terms of social association. An untouchable himself, he led a resolute and adroit struggle against untouchability and attempted to reformulate the terms of nationalist discourse in India. This selection draws from his major works, speeches, letters and memoranda. |
| ambedkar biography: Biographer Dhananjay Keer Rajendraprasad S. Masurkar , 2023-05-28 Curiosity about the lives of eminent persons pushed him to study of biography writing. To gain mastery over the English language he recited the the thick volume of Webster's Dictionary. Started writing with nickname Dhananjay for weeklies. His first complete biographical work on the life of V.D. Savarkar earned to him reputation as a best biographer and was compared to the high standard of James Boswell. Following this he wrote English biographies of Dr. B. R.Ambedkar, Tilak, Jotirao Phooley, Shahu and Mahatma Gandhi. He too separately wrote in Marathi on lives of Ambedkar. Phooley, Shahu and labour leader S. K. Bole. His other works include the life sketches of eminent Indians. Thinkers have attributed to him as to be an erudite scholar of contemporary history of India with special context to Maharashtra. His ability of writing in both English and Marathi languages with equal ease and skill brought to him a fame as 'Dhananjay - the ambidexter. Here is the inspiring story of this great biographer... BIOGRAPHER DHANANAJAY KEER ......... Mr. Rajendraprasad S. Masurkar has written this biography.... |
| ambedkar biography: The Socio-political Ideas of BR Ambedkar Bidyut Chakrabarty, 2018-10-03 Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), popularly known as Babasaheb stands out for his relentless battle against caste discrimination. He was a voice for the marginalized of India’s demography that remained peripheral due to well-entrenched socio-economic and political prejudices. This book is an analytical account of how Ambedkar’s socio-political ideas evolved as part of his wider politico-ideological challenge against self-motivated designs for exploitation of human beings by human beings. The author contends that it was an ideological discourse that he built in a context when dominant nationalist viewpoints seem to have hardly left space for any other discourse to grow. The book argues that Ambedkar’s socio-political ideas were an outcome of his personal experiences of social atrocities which were justified as integral to the caste system. The book comprises six substantial chapters which delve into the socio-political ideas of BR Ambedkar, concentrating on those sets of ideas through which he established his claim as an original thinker in opposition to the dominant nationalist discourse. Unlike the most conventional studies of Ambedkar’s thoughts and ideas, the book provides a new methodological tool to decipher their conceptual roots. It is therefore argued that Babasaheb’s unique conceptualization of social justice was not just an outcome of his existential existence of being a Dalit, but an offshoot of his own understanding of liberalism as a mode of emancipating human beings from shackles of authority, power and domination. Examining Ambedkar’s ideas, the book charts and examines the growth and consolidation of constitutional democracy in India since it was inaugurated with the acceptance of the 1950 Constitution. It will be of interest to scholars in the fields of Indian political theory, South Asian politics and history. |
| ambedkar biography: Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste Christophe Jaffrelot, 2006 |
| ambedkar biography: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar : Education, Equality and Empowerment Dr. D. K. Sharma, D. Debnath, Manisha Saxena, |
| ambedkar biography: THE UNTOUCHABLES Dr B.R. Ambedkar, 2014-10-21 Who were they and why they became UNTOUCHABLES ? This is the digital copy of THE UNTOUCHABLES. a book wrote by The great Dr B.R. Ambedkar. Please give us your feedback : www.facebook.com/syag21 Your opinion is very important to us. We appreciate your feedback and will use it to evaluate changes and make improvements in our book. |
| ambedkar biography: The Buddha and His Dhamma B.R. Ambedkar, 2011-01-11 The Buddha and His Dhamma was B.R. Ambedkar's last work. Published posthumously, it presented a radical reorientation of Buddhist thought and literature, aptly called navayana. It deals with Ambedkar's conceptualization of Buddhism and the possibilities it offered for liberation and upliftment of the Dalits. It presents his reflections on the life of the Buddha, his teachings, and the spread of Buddhism by interweaving anecdotes with detailed analyses of the religion's basic tenets. The author also includes important elements of the Buddhist canon and tradition to make the teachings more accessible. In the first critical and annotated edition of this work, the editors address the on-going debate on Ambedkar's interpretation of the Buddha's dhamma by focusing on the accuracy of his citations and providing missing sources. They also discuss Ambedkar's modification of source materials. The introduction contextualizes the scholarly work related to the text. |
| ambedkar biography: UNBOWED, UNBENT, UNBROKEN Dr. B.R. AMBEDKAR'S LEGACY Harsh Roodra , 2023-07-04 Unbowed, Unbend, Unbroken: Dr. Ambedkar's Legacy by Harsh Roodra is an extraordinary book that explores the profound impact and enduring legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, one of India's greatest visionaries. Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, Roodra vividly portrays the struggles, triumphs, and visionary thoughts of this remarkable leader. The book delves into Dr. Ambedkar's role as a social reformer, jurist, and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, highlighting his relentless pursuit of justice and his unwavering fight against caste-based discrimination. With powerful insights and thought-provoking analysis, Roodra's work serves as a poignant reminder of Dr. Ambedkar's unwavering commitment to social equality and inspires readers to carry forward his legacy in the ongoing quest for a more just and inclusive society. |
| ambedkar biography: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Divya Chandhok, 2019-10-15 Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born to Dalit parents at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. Being born an untouchable, did not prevent Ambedkar from studying in the best schools and universities, where he distinguished himself in spite of all the challenges he faced. Having been discriminated against at a young age, Ambedkar was resilient in making his visions for an equal nation that valued plurality, come true. As chairman of the drafting committee of the Indian Constitution, he played a pivotal role in the making of this great nation, which is remembered with reverence, even today. |
| ambedkar biography: Mahatma Jotirao Phooley Dhananjay Keer, 1964 Biography of Jotīrāva Govindarāva Phule, 1827-1890, social reformer from Maharashtra, India. |
| ambedkar biography: Ambedkar in London William Gould, Santosh Dass, Christophe Jaffrelot, 2022-12-13 Dr Bhimrao R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India's greatest intellectuals and social reformers; his political ideas continue to inspire and mobilise some of the world's poorest and most socially disadvantaged, in India and the global Indian diaspora. Ambedkar's thought on labour, legal rights, women's rights, education, caste, political representation and the economy are international in importance. This book explores his lesser-known period of London-based study and publication during the early 1920s, presenting that experience as a lens for thinking about Ambedkar's global intellectual significance. Some of his later canon on caste, and Dalit rights and representation, was rooted in and shaped by his earlier work around the economy, governance, labour and representation during his time as a law student and as a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics. The Indian diaspora in the UK is the country's single largest national minority. This volume connects Ambedkar's influence during his lifetime, and his legacy today, to this early phase of his career and intellectual life in London, and its immediate aftermath. It contains new material on the establishment of the city's Ambedkar Museum, explores Britain's Ambedkarite movement, and charts the campaign to outlaw caste discrimination in the UK. |
| ambedkar biography: Gandhi, Ambedkar, Savarkar Hindu, Hinduism and Hindutva Prem Anand Mishra, 2022-01-01 This book examines the ways in which Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Savarkar viewed and interpreted Hinduism. Based on their autobiographical accounts and biographical narratives, first, it traces the origin and development of their ideas about Hinduism. Second, reading through the original writings of these three geniuses, it attempts to reconstruct their interpretations of Hinduism. It argues that these three geniuses offer three different worldviews on Hinduism that are nonnegotiable. |
| ambedkar biography: Thoughts and Philosophy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar C. D. Naik, 2003 All Observations Of Change In Masses; Outlook And Impact On Social Relationship Can Be Reduced To The Point, Whether The Steeply Rooted Fort Of Inequality Is Being Demolished Brick By Brick To Adopt The Fraternal Relationship In Its Social System One By One Or Not. The Problem Thus Reduced Has Further Practical Issues Of Inexorable Rule Of Inequality Inbuilt In Genetic, Traditional And Charismatic Individualism. But This Problem Is Not Insolvable. It Can Be Resolved By Assuming Reality And Value As Inseparable As Interrelationship Of Equality And Inequality, The Former Dictating What Principle Should Be Held In Treating All Individuals Of Society And The Latter Telling What The State Of Affairs Actually Exists. Then By Upholding Fraternal Equality As The Reigning Principle In Behaviour And Being Aware Of Existing Odds Against It The Problem May Be Resolved And The One Man One Value Oriented Fream Of Dr. Ambedkar Can Be Brought About In Our National Life. The Present Book, Thoughts And Philosophy Of Dr. Ambedkar Stressed The Philosophy Of Equality, Liberty And Fraternity As Expounded By Dr. Ambedkar Himself Under The Caption Of My Personal Philosophy Originally In Marathi, Translated Into English By This Author. It Deals With The Buddhist Development In East And West Since 1950; Ambedkarism In The World; Punjabi Speech On Ambedkar By Balley Translated Into English; Hindi Article Of Dr. Kausalyayan Translated As Had There Been No Ambedkar. Marathi Articles Of Babsaheb Translated Into English; And Author S Own Contributions Such As Education And Ambedkar, Ambedkar As A Great Relevance To A New Millennium And So On. |
| ambedkar biography: Babasaheb Savita Ambedkar, 2022-11-07 Born into a middle-class, Sarasvat Brahmin family, Dr Sharada Kabir met and got to know Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar as a patient riddled with life-threatening diseases, and eventually married him on 15 April 1948, getting rechristened as Savita Ambedkar. From the day of their wedding to the death of Dr Ambedkar on 6 December 1956, she aided him in some of his greatest achievements-drafting the Constitution of India, framing the Hindu Code Bill, writing some of his most celebrated books, including The Buddha and His Dhamma, and leading millions of Dalits into Buddhism. Following his death, she was hounded into obscurity by some of Dr Ambedkar's followers, who saw her as a threat to their political ambitions. She re-emerged into public life in 1970 and got back to working on the mission to which her husband had devoted his life-the welfare of the Dalit community. Her autobiography, Dr Ambedkaraanchya Sahavaasaat, was first published in Marathi in 1990. This English translation by Nadeem Khan unearths a much valuable and forgotten account, an intimate portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. A tenacious fighter, an outstanding scholar and an iconic leader, Dr B.R. Ambedkar was all that and more. Savita Ambedkar brings alive a different side of her husband: a man who wrote romantic letters, dictated what she should wear, whipped up delicious mutton curry, played the violin, and even tried his hand at sculpting. This is a book that humanizes Ambedkar as no other book has done yet. |
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| ambedkar biography: Gandhi's Pilgrimage of Faith Uma Majmudar, 2012-02-01 Millions around the world revere Mahatma Gandhi, yet only a few know the man Mohandas Gandhi and the internal journey of his soul. This pioneering book fills the spiritual void in Gandhian literature by focusing on the soul and the substance of the man. Uma Majmudar shows that, contrary to popular belief, Gandhi's rise to greatness was not meteoric; it was, rather, a continuous process of faith development, punctuated by conflicts, crises, and turning points. Using James W. Fowler's theory of Stages of Faith as a guide, Majmudar undertakes the first developmental study to analyze the fundamental role of faith in transforming Gandhi's life. She proposes that the power that nourished Gandhi's soul was his ever-growing faith in the ultimate triumph of Truth and in the innate Godliness of the human soul. Along with making an invaluable contribution to numerous cross-cultural disciplines, the book also offers something special to those wishing to embark on their own faith developmental journey, guided by Gandhi's example. Majmudar wants us to touch and feel Gandhi. He is not on a pedestal, he is not made of granite or bronze, he is warm and vulnerable. — from the Foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi |
| ambedkar biography: Political Ideas in Modern India Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture, 2006-03-31 The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way.In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice. |
| ambedkar biography: Who Were the Shudras B. R. Ambedkar, 2021-07 |
| ambedkar biography: R.D. Karve Dr Anant Deshmukh, 2025-05-30 Raghunath Dhondo Karve was among the stormy and controversial figures of his time in Maharashtra. Born to Dhondo Keshav Karve, a social reformer who advocated for women’s rights and widow remarriage, RD Karve studied the subjects of birth control and the science of lovemaking. In 1927, Raghunath started the Samaaj Sawaasthya (Health of the Society) magazine in Marathi. The thoughts he propagated through this magazine were too radical for the society of his time and the orthodoxy who often raised obstacles and filed several cases against him. Originally written in Marathi by Dr Anant Deshmukh, and translated by Nadeem Khan, RD Karve: The Champion of Individual Liberty is a meticulously researched biography of a reformer and a social criticism of the times. |
| ambedkar biography: Outcaste Bombay Juned Shaikh, 2021-04-25 Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolis Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city’s economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste system, mapping the transformation of the city as urban planners marked Dalit neighborhoods as slums that needed to be demolished in order to build a modern Bombay. Drawing from rare sources written by the urban poor and Dalits in the Marathi language—including novels, poems, and manifestos—Outcaste Bombay examines how language and literature became a battleground for cultural politics. Through careful scrutiny of one city’s complex social fabric, this study illuminates issues that remain vital for labor activists and urban planners around the world. |
| ambedkar biography: Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular Charu Gupta, Laura Brueck, Hans Harder, Shobna Nijhawan, 2021-12-14 This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations that expand the assumptions that have typically framed literary histories, and creatively re-draws their boundaries, both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities, and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The accompanying translations—from Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu—not only round out these scholarly explorations and comparisons, but invite readers to recognise the assiduous, intimate, and critical labour of expanding access to the vernacular archive, while also engaging with the challenges—linguistic, cultural, and political—of rendering vernacular articulations of gendered experience and embodiment in English. Collectively, the essays and translations foreground complex and politicised expressions of gender and genre in fictional and non-fictional print materials and thus draw meaningful connections between the vernacular and literature, the everyday and the marginals, and gender and sentiment. They expand vernacular literary archives, canons and genealogies, and push us to theorise the nature of writing in South Asia. Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular is a significant new contribution to South Asian literary history and gender studies, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of History, Literature, Cultural Studies, Politics, and Sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. |
| ambedkar biography: Current Biography Yearbook , 1952 |
| ambedkar biography: Grassroots Development Initiatives in India Sampat Kale, 2023-12-01 This book examines how the voluntary organisations engaged with development programmes work with the approach of conscientisation to empower Adivasis. Their work has been instrumental in making government machinery pro-poor by implementing development programmes with greater transparency and accountability. Conscientisation of Adivasis by voluntary organisations through their educative role has resulted in the advancement of their lives and the emergence of autonomous leadership. The study concludes that the ideological base of the founders of the organisations made the Adivasis independent and self-supportive for their development from their earlier status of servitude through initiating and accomplishing the task of conscientisation. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan) |
| ambedkar biography: Between Babasaheb and Mahatma Hulas Singh, 2024-10-16 This book is a critical comparative study of Jotirao Phule and Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, modern India's two most prominent dalit leaders. Although they were not close contemporaries, they came to construct a firm structure of not only dalit ideology, but also dalit methodology to emancipate the oppressed and depressed sections of society. The book deals with their ideas in a new light highlighting aspects of convergence and contrast in their respective approach to philosophy, religion, society, and culture. It argues that deep down in his philosophic orientation, Phule was quintessentially closer to Gandhi than to Ambedkar. The author also contends that the usage of the term dalit exclusively in the caste-communitarian sense is essentially a product of post-independence political appropriation rather than social evolution. The book specifically brings to light the dynamics of humanism and nationalism on the one hand and that of communitarianism on the other in the context of twentieth-century colonial India. Notably, Gandhi is brought in the narrative to complete the triumvirate. Comprehensive and deeply grounded in primary research, this thought-provoking book will be indispensable for students and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, political science, political thought, exclusion studies, dalit and subaltern studies, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the writings of Ambedkar and Phule. |
| ambedkar biography: The Life of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Gollapalli Ganni Raju, 1979 |
| ambedkar biography: Anthropologists - Compilation of List of Anthropologists VOL-01 Athaluri santhosh kumar, 2020-02-11 This book is a compilation from various sources and, is An experimental approach to list the Anthropologists in this world, by reading this book readers may get awareness on field of anthropology and the scope and the limits, however its just a small part .i.e.ONLY VOLUME - 01 of the book. 2nd volume is under editing. |
| ambedkar biography: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, a Study in Social Democracy G. S. Lokhande, 1982 Life, work, and philosophy of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1892-1956, Indian social and political activist. |
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that …
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Apr 29, 2025 · Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a visionary Indian political leader and social reformer who fought against caste discrimination and played a pivotal role in drafting the Constitution of …
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly known as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician, writer and social reformer.
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Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, politician and social reformer. This biography profiles his childhood, life, career, and achievements. Born: 14 April, 1891. Place of …
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B.R. Ambedkar “Babasaheb” was an Indian political reformer who campaigned for the rights of the ‘untouchable’ caste of India.
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Ambedkar was appointed as the first Law Minister of independent India in 1947. His most important intervention in this role was in the attempt to pass the Hindu Code Bill, to reform Hindu personal …
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Nov 19, 2024 · Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), widely known as the architect of the Indian Constitution, was a social reformer, jurist, economist, and a champion for the rights of the …
B. R. Ambedkar - Wikipedia
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that …
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Apr 29, 2025 · Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a visionary Indian political leader and social reformer who fought against caste discrimination and played a pivotal role in drafting the …
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly known as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician, writer and social reformer.
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Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, politician and social reformer. This biography profiles his childhood, life, career, and achievements. Born: 14 April, 1891. Place of …
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B.R. Ambedkar “Babasaheb” was an Indian political reformer who campaigned for the rights of the ‘untouchable’ caste of India.
B. R. Ambedkar - Constitution of India
Ambedkar was appointed as the first Law Minister of independent India in 1947. His most important intervention in this role was in the attempt to pass the Hindu Code Bill, to reform …
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Biography, Contributions & Legacies - Next IAS
Nov 19, 2024 · Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), widely known as the architect of the Indian Constitution, was a social reformer, jurist, economist, and a champion for the rights of …
