Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar A Complete Biography

Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar is considered the Messiah of the Dalits in India. In 1947 the Constituent Assembly appointed him as the chairman of the Drafting Committee constituted for drafting the Constitution for independent India. He played a key role in building the Constitution. He was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow (near Indore) a small town of present Madhya Pradesh. He was the fourteenth child of Subedar Ramji and Bhimabai Sakpal. Being from the Maharcaste he was treated as an untouchable. His father and his grandfather had served in the British Army. Good schools were arranged by the then government for the education of the children of all military personnel. Therefore despite being from a low caste he got a good education. In 1937 Dr Ambedkar introduced a bill to end the Khoti practice of Mahars working as official slaves in the Konkan region. When India became independent in 1947 he adorned the post of the Minister of Law. He had made a clarion call-Lost rights are never regained by begging... but by relentless struggle. For his remarkable work he was posthumously awarded Indias highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in the year 1990.