![]() ![]() Ambedkar obtained a scholarship of twenty five rupees a month from the Gayakwad ruler of Baroda, Sayaji Rao III. In 1908, Ambedkar went to study at the Elphinstone College, Mumbai. Discrimination followed wherever he went. ![]() The discrimination and humiliation haunted Ambedkar even at the Army school, run by British government. Mahar cast was viewed as "untouchable" by the upper class. Ambedkar had to face severe discriminations from every corner of the society as his parents hailed from the Hindu Mahar caste. Ambedkar's father Ramji was a Subedar in the Indian Army and posted at Mhow cantonment, MP. He was the fourteenth child of his parents. Early LifeÄ«himrao Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 in Madhya Pradesh. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour in 1990. Ambedkar was appointed as India's first Law Minister in the Cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. ![]() Ambedkar fought to eradicate the social evils like untouchability and for the rights of the dalits and other socially backward classes throughout his life. He was a very well-known political leader, eminent jurist, Buddhist activist, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, writer, economist, scholar and editor, too. Ambedkar was popularly known as Babasaheb Ambedkar and everyone knows that he was one of the architects of the Indian Constitution. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self THE LEADER OF THE SILENTÄr. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. ![]()
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