Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Buddhism News Flash Other Social Reformers Culture and Civilization Research Resources Debate and Discussions In the United Nations Worldwide Dalits Matrimonial Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was a veritable phenomenon of the 20th century. There may scarcely be a parallel indeed in the annals of human history to the saga of struggle that his life represented. Born in the family of ‘untouchables’‚ he could nonetheless scale the highest peak of scholarship
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Dr. Ambedkar: A Social Reformer Through the Magnifier of Antonio Gramsci SAVITA V. DEOGIRKAR Lecturer in English‚ Adarsha Mahavidyalaya‚ Dhamangaon (Rly) Distt: Amravati (M.S.) Abstract A Champion of Human Rights‚ Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was a multi dimensional personality. He was a great thinker‚ a philosopher‚ a true revolutionist‚ a prolific writer and at the top a devoted reformer. If studied and analyzed his noble saga to fight against Castes’ and
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ([bʱiːmraːw raːmdʑiː aːmbeːɽkər]; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956)‚ popularly also known as Babasaheb‚ was an Indian jurist‚ political leader‚ philosopher‚ anthropologist‚ historian‚ orator‚ economist‚ teacher‚ editor‚ prolific writer‚ revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination‚ the system
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Nanzan University Dr. Ambedkar: The Hero of the Mahars‚ Ex-Untouchables of India Author(s): Indira Y. Junghare Source: Asian Folklore Studies‚ Vol. 47‚ No. 1 (1988)‚ pp. 93-121 Published by: Nanzan University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1178254 Accessed: 04-04-2015 11:32 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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(II) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Life and Times: Dr. Ambedkar was born on 14th April‚ 1891 in Mhow‚ Madhya Pradesh. Born as Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar‚ he belonged to the ‘untouchable’ Mahar caste. His father‚ Ramji Ambedkar‚ served in the military. Many from the Mahar community had joined the Bombay army of the East India Company. Bhim’s mother passed away when he was six years old. His father‚ a follower of Kabir and a strict vegetarian‚ retired after fourteen years of military service. The Ramji family moved
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will. It is during the time of Ambedkar that the status of women in India has started rising and she has started acquiring various rights not allowed to them prior. Previously women were treated as objects owned by men. Manu said “A woman must be her father’s shadow in childhood‚ her husband’s in her youth‚ her son’s in old age.” Ambedkar apposed this type of rules and rites‚ he always argued for equality among man and man and also among man and woman. Ambedkar is a chief architect of Indian
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very difficult to lead‚ change is what triggers progress. Dr. Ambedkar played a significant role in inculcating change in the psyches of Indians who were rejecting it for centuries. He spearheaded the bastion for fighting the social evils deeply embedded in our structure in a valiant way. From a boy who was denied right to sit in his class to a person who devised the rights of the citizens of the same country‚ Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar had come a long way. A jurist‚ social reformer‚ scholar‚ politician
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UNIT Structure 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 DR. B. R. AMBEDKAR Objectives Introduction Ambedkar’s View on the British Rule in India Ambedkar on Democracy 14.3.1 Meaning: Social and Economic Democracy 14.3.2 Factors necessary for the Successful Operation of Democracy 14.4 O n State Socialism 14.4.1 Inclination to Socialism 14.4.2 Meaning of State Socialism ’14.4.3 Role of Government 14.5 Ambedkar and Drafting of The Indian Constitution 14.6 On Social Change 14.6.1 Priority to Social Reform
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Dr. Ambedkar - A Social Reformer Dr. Bheem Rao Ramji Ambavadekar popularly known as Babasaheb was born on 14th April 1891 in a poor Mahar family. His teachers at school were impressed and added a surname to him. as Ambedkar. He hailed from a poor family belonging to one of the Hindu untouchable communities in India. His father was Ramji. Dr. Ambedkar was the 14th son of his father. Ambedkar was a brilliant child. After leaving school Ambedkar studied F.A.‚ at the Elphinstone Collage‚ Mumbai
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Nationalism is viewed by both ‚ Sir Muhammad Iqbal and B R Ambedkar as a unifying spirit among people who feel akin to each other and co-exist harmoniously- inspired by common elements‚ such as culture and traditions. Sir Iqbal attributes this unifying spirit primarily to a common faith (Islam) which in his words "an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of Polity - a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal". Arguing against bifurcation between an individual’s
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