| Name(s) |
Dr. BHIMRAO RAMJI
AMBEDKAR |
| Date of
Birth |
April 14, 1891
– Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, India. |
| Date of
Death |
December 06, 1956
– Delhi, India. |
|
Identity |
The Architect of
the Indian Constitution |
|
Date-wise Events / Works |
- May 09, 1916: He read the paper
"Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development"
before a seminar conducted by the anthropologist Alexander
Goldenweiser.
- September 25, 1932: The
agreement known as Poona Pact was signed between Ambedkar
(on behalf of the depressed classes among Hindus) and Madan
Mohan Malaviya (on behalf of the other Hindus). The
agreement gave reserved seats for the depressed classes in
the Provisional legislatures, within the general electorate.
Due to the pact, the depressed class received 148 seats in
the legislature, instead of the 71 as allocated in the
Communal Award earlier proposed by the British Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
- 1935: His first wife
Ramabai died in 1935 after a long illness.
- 1935: He was appointed
principal of the Government Law College, Bombay, a position
he held for two years.
- October 13, 1935: He
announced his intention to convert to a different religion
and exhorted his followers to leave Hinduism.
- May 15, 1936: He published
his book Annihilation of Caste on this day. It
strongly criticised Hindu orthodox religious leaders and the
caste system in general, and included "a rebuke of Gandhi"
on the subject.
- August 15, 1947: He became
the first Minister for law and Justice, Govt. of India.
- August 29, 1947: He was
appointed the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting
Committee.
- April 15, 1948: He married
to Dr. Sharada Kabir. She adopted the name Savita Ambedkar
and cared for him the rest of his life.
- November 26, 1949: The
Constitution was adopted on this day by the Constituent
Assembly.
- January 24, 1950: He ceased
to the Chairman of the Constituion Drafting Committee after
the draft Constitution had been finalised and approved for
adoption.
- 1952: He independently
contested an election to Lok Sabha in 1952, but was
defeated. Subsequently, he was appointed to the Rajya Sabha
in March 1952 which he remained till death.
- 1955: He founded the
Bharatiya Bauddha Mahasabha, or the Buddhist Society of
India.
- 1956: He completed his
final work, The Buddha and His Dhamma, in this year which
was published posthumously.
- October 14, 1956: Ambedkar
organised a formal public ceremony for himself and his
supporters in Nagpur on this day. Accepting the Three
Refuges and Five Precepts from a Buddhist monk in the
traditional manner, Ambedkar completed his own conversion,
along with his wife. He then proceeded to convert some
500,000 of his supporters who were gathered around him. He
then travelled to Kathmandu, Nepal to attend the Fourth
World Buddhist Conference.
- December 07, 1956: A Buddhist
cremation was organised at Dadar Chowpatty beach in Mumbai
on this day, which was attended by half a million grieving
people.
- December 16, 1956: A conversion
program was organised on this day so that cremation
attendees were also converted to Buddhism at the same place.
- 1990: He was posthumously
awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest
civilian award.
- April 14, 1990: His statue
was installed inside the Parliament House on this day, when
late Shri V.P. Singh was the Prime Minster of India.
- 2012: He was chosen
greatest Indian in a nationwide poll held by History TV and
CNN-IBN.
- April 14, 2015: Google
commemorated Ambedkar's 124th birthday through a homepage
doodle on this day.
- November 17, 2017: The Vice
President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, launched P.S.
Krishnan’s scholarly work entitled “Social Exclusion and
Justice in India”, published by Routledge Publication. He
said that the author has traced the dialogues between the
founding fathers of our Constitution, especially Gandhiji
and Dr. Ambedkar, and traced the confluence of diverse
thoughts of these two great men in the final version of
India’s Constitution. He further said that Dr. Ambedkar
joining the first Cabinet of independent India as Minister
of Law and thereafter as the Chairman of the Drafting
Committee of the Constituent Assembly were, as the author
points out, decisive steps that forged a national
convergence on social justice and inclusion.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was a Jurist, political leader, philosopher,
anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, and
editor.
- He was popularly also known as Babasaheb.
- He was also the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of
Indian Constitution.
- He was a real Champion in the campaign against social
discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna – the
categorization of Hindu society into four varnas as also and
the Hindu caste system.
- He was one of the first Dalits to obtain college
education in India, despite various social taboos and
financial problems.
- Despite innumerable problems, hurdles and obstacles, he
finally succeeded in earning law degree and doctorates for
his study and research in law, economics and political
science from Columbia University and the London School of
Economics.
- He was against Article 370 in the Constitution, which
gives a special Status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir,
and it was put against his wishes.
- He was strongly in favour of Universal Common Code in
India.
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