B R Ambedkar

B R Ambedkar / Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhimrao Ramji Sakpal) an Indian jurist, architect, economist, social remormer, philosopher, thinker, educator, lawyer, labour leader, publisher, journalist, religious reformer, politician, statesman, revolutionary, feminist, orator, Polymath, scholar.

Father of the Indian Constitution.

Founder of Independent Labour Party (ILP).

He was revered as Jai Bhim, Babasaheb.

First Union Law Minister of India.

The first Indian to receive a doctorate in economics abroad.

Played a key role in the establishment of the Reserve Bank of India.

He proposed to reduced working hours in India from 14 hours to 8 hours.

He fought for the passage of the Comprehensive Hindu Code Bill, which provided important rights to Hindu women.

He led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of Dalits to access public water at the Chavdar Tank in Mahad, Maharashtra..

Worked for the abolition of untouchability and caste.

He converted to Buddhism along with his followers.

B R Ambedkar’s autobiography, Waiting for a Visa, is used as assigned reading in certain courses at Columbia University.
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