Biography of Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar
Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar was a leading activist and social reformer who gave his life working for upliftment of the Dalits and socially backward classes of India. He continuously fought caste discrimination and backward society. Ambedkar was the victim of caste discrimination inequality and prejudice. He attend higher education thus becoming the first ever untouchable to attain the same. After his studies, he launched himself politically fighting for the rights of depressed class and inequality practiced in our society. He became the first Law Minister of free India and the framer or chief architect of the Constitution of India.
He was born on April, 1891 as Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and his father's name was Ramji Maloji Sakpal and her mother's name was Bhimabai. His father served in the Indian Army. He was last of the fourteen children born to the couple. He belonging to Mahar caste who were considered untouchables, his family suffered from socioeconomic discrimination. Young Ambedkar a lots of problems while academically training himself but her surpassed all of them. In 1897, He along with his family moved to Bombay where he enrolled at the Elphinstone High School, Thus becoming the first ever untouchable to attained higher education. Completing his matriculation degree in 1907, He admitted himself Elphinstone college in 1908, Again creating history by becoming the untouchable to enter University. He graduated from the same in 1912 with a degree economics and political science.
He secured a job at the Baroda state Government but did not continue the same for long as he was awarded a Baroda State Scholarship which provided him the opportunity to gain postgraduate education at Columbia University in New York City.To pursue the same, he moved to America.in 1913. He completed his M.A. in June 1915. After that he completed Ph.D. In Economics. Meanwhile in 1916, he enrolled for a bar course at Gray's Inn. However due to the termination of the scholarship, he had returned to India.
After returning to India, he worked as the defence Secretary for Princely State of Baroda. However, the was not easy for him as he was often ridiculed and castigated for untouchable. He started working as a legal professional in the country. He was appointed to Bombay in 1925.
Presidency Committee to work under the All European Simon Commission. The Commission reports were thrashed by the congress who set up its own version of the Constitution of Free India. He actively worked against untouchability in 1927.
Since 1948, Ambedkar suffered from diabetes. He was bed-ridden from June to October in !954. After that he converted to Buddhism and he died 6 December 1956 at his home in Delhi.
He was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 1990.
He was born on April, 1891 as Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and his father's name was Ramji Maloji Sakpal and her mother's name was Bhimabai. His father served in the Indian Army. He was last of the fourteen children born to the couple. He belonging to Mahar caste who were considered untouchables, his family suffered from socioeconomic discrimination. Young Ambedkar a lots of problems while academically training himself but her surpassed all of them. In 1897, He along with his family moved to Bombay where he enrolled at the Elphinstone High School, Thus becoming the first ever untouchable to attained higher education. Completing his matriculation degree in 1907, He admitted himself Elphinstone college in 1908, Again creating history by becoming the untouchable to enter University. He graduated from the same in 1912 with a degree economics and political science.
He secured a job at the Baroda state Government but did not continue the same for long as he was awarded a Baroda State Scholarship which provided him the opportunity to gain postgraduate education at Columbia University in New York City.To pursue the same, he moved to America.in 1913. He completed his M.A. in June 1915. After that he completed Ph.D. In Economics. Meanwhile in 1916, he enrolled for a bar course at Gray's Inn. However due to the termination of the scholarship, he had returned to India.
After returning to India, he worked as the defence Secretary for Princely State of Baroda. However, the was not easy for him as he was often ridiculed and castigated for untouchable. He started working as a legal professional in the country. He was appointed to Bombay in 1925.
Presidency Committee to work under the All European Simon Commission. The Commission reports were thrashed by the congress who set up its own version of the Constitution of Free India. He actively worked against untouchability in 1927.
Since 1948, Ambedkar suffered from diabetes. He was bed-ridden from June to October in !954. After that he converted to Buddhism and he died 6 December 1956 at his home in Delhi.
He was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 1990.
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