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	B. R. Ambedkar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1913 to 1917, and again from 1920 to 1923, Ambedkar studied in the West, and, when, at the age of 32, he finally returned to the country of his birth, it was as one of the most highly qualified men in public life.
		While Ambedkar continued to participate in the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha, and was to do so until the end of his life, from 1952 onwards Ambedkar's energies were increasingly devoted to other concerns.
		In 1908, when Ambedkar passed the matriculation examination for Bombay University, this event was such an uncommon achievement on the part of an Untouchable boy that it was celebrated with a public meeting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhimrao_Ramji_Ambedkar

	Columbia News ::: Bombay Academic Visits Statue of Indian Patriot, Alumnus Ambedkar
		Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) is considered the father of the Indian Constitution and a leading champion of rights for India's "untouchables," those once considered to be of such low caste that their very touch was to be avoided.
		Ambedkar also spent many years in the early part of the last century at Columbia and formed many of his ideas about equality and social justice studying under John Dewey, whose ideas on democracy and education helped shape America's education system.
		Ambedkar, born an "untouchable," overcame prejudice to obtain an education, eventually earning advanced degrees from Columbia and the London School of Economics.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/12/ambedkar.html

	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: The man who made all the differences
		Ambedkar's response to Gandhi was that he wanted to treat the symptom, not the cause of the disease- you can't abolish Untouchability without addressing the Caste and the Dharma system, which is at the root of it.
		Ambedkar's conversion was a symbolic protest to the oppressions of caste inequality.
		Ambedkar, a man of provocative learning, challenged opponents of Buddhism to hold discussions with him, and was confident that he would defeat all Pandits.
	www.dalitindia.org /guest/ambed_nishi.htm

	ambedkar
		Ambedkar knew that his dharmic option for the Sikhism and later on for Buddhism and against Islam and Christianity was completely in accordance with the Hindutvavadis placing greater importance to the affiliation to the Hindu Culture in general than to the affiliation to a particular traditional or new Hindu sect.
		Ambedkar especially took exception to the fact that those Untouchables who converted to Christianity became "selfish and self-centred": "They don't care a snap of their finger what becomes of their former caste associates so long user system they and their families, or they and a little group who have become Christians, get ahead" [16].
		Ambedkar then appeals to the non-Muslim, the actual Hindu nation: It might be exactly the same way in interest of India, that the Untouchables, if they must change their belief, the Sikhism accept [42b].
	web.uni-frankfurt.de /irenik/relkultur18b.html

	Hindutva Series : Dr. Ambedkar and the Hindu Caste System
		Ambedkar was born in the Mahar caste; he was pushed away as an 'untouchable';his very touch was supposed to make the water unclean; by his genius, by his learning and by his unbending will, he rose high and shaped the Constitution of India, and came to be called the Modern Buddha.
		Ambedkar was born in a caste which was considered as the lowest of the low.
		Ambedkar felt that the 'untouchables' had lost their individuality for centuries; it was impossible to wake up such people through speeches and slogans.
	www.hindutva.org /ambedkar.html

	Ambedkar National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ambedkar National Congress is a political party based in India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambedkar_National_Congress

	Why Dr
		Ambedkar who was born in an "untouchable" family carried on a relentless battle against untouchability throughout his adult life.
		Ambedkar believed that the untouchables occupied a "weak and lowly status" only because they were a part of the Hindu society.
		In the same year, Ambedkar delivered a speech on Buddha Jayanti day in Delhi, in which he attacked Hindu gods and goddess and praised Buddhism because it was a religion based on moral principles.
	www.buddhiwadi.org /ambedkar.htm

	Gandhi's Ambedkar
		Ambedkar is a figure who commands great respect from one end of the social spectrum.
		This line, that Ambedkar had no business to criticise, challenge or argue with Gandhi, was of course made with much vigour and malice during the national movement as well.
		Whereas in their lifetime Gandhi and Ambedkar were political rivals, now, decades after their death, it should be possible to see their contributions as complementing one another's.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~sj6/GandhiAmbedkar.html

	Theravada Buddhism and modernization: Anagarika Dhammapala and B.R. Ambedkar (leaders of Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka and India)
		Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow in Madhya Pradeh, in the Mahar caste.
		Ambedkar refused to be a supplicant at the temple gates.
		For Ambedkar revolt against traditional Hinduism and a quest for a new religious-cultural identity as a part of the "modernization" of the submerged masses of "untouchables", Buddhism became the leitmotiv six decades later.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/gokhale.htm

	AAS Abstracts: South Asia Session 150
		Ambedkar, the leader of India's Untouchables in the years leading up to Independence, and the law minister and principal draftsman of the Indian Constitution under Jawaharlal Nehru, had vowed in 1936 to seek a religion that offered "liberty, equality, and fraternity" and that did not justify class warfare and economic oppression.
		As early as 1948 Ambedkar was responsible for the republication of P. Lakshmi Narasu's Essence of Buddhism.
		Ambedkar (1891-1956) and his wife from Hinduism to Buddhism, marks the return of Buddhism to India after more than a millennium of decline and virtual extinction.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1995abst/southasi/sases150.htm

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		Ambedkar won two major victories when the High Court of Bombay gave a verdict in favour of the untouchables and made a successful non-violent march and entry into a temple.
		Ambedkar Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar was born on April 14th, 1891, in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
		For Ambedkar Buddha was one of the main inspiring personalities in history who raised a strong voice of protest against inequality between people and between men and women.
	www.dalits.org /ambedkar.html

	kaisare.net » Blog Archive » Ambedkar: Do we do justice to this great soul
		Ambedkar’s is the only name that can draw poor families in large numbers spontaneously to the streets in most places in India.
		Ambedkar was a great person, and the proper tribute for him would be to inculcate his teachings in our every day lives.
		Ambedkar, at that time, was the only Dalit leader who was seen with the likes of Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah.
	kaisare.net /wlog/index.php?p=205

	TIMEasia.com: Arts -- Taking on Gandhi
		But Ambedkar bargained hard, and the Mahatma agreed to a historic compromise—instead of separate electorates, a specified number of seats in provincial and national legislative bodies were reserved exclusively for untouchables, a reservation system that is still used in India to ensure a voice for untouchables in India's parliament.
		Born in 1891, Ambedkar was himself an untouchable, the 14th child of a poor school teacher.
		Ambedkar compensated by becoming one of the most highly educated Indians of his time.
	www.time.com /time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,103839,00.html

	Article
		Ambedkar stood apart from his eminent contemporaries because he combined in himself the distinction of being a social revolutionary, a statesman, a scholar and a visionary.
		Ambedkar said that the “dalits will not join in socialist revolution for equalisation of property unless they know that after the revolution is achieved they will be treated equally and that there will be no discrimination of caste and creed”.
		Ambedkar reiterated his views when he lost the Lok Sabha election against the Congress candidate Kajrolkar in Bombay in 1952 and the by-election against the Congress candidate, Borkar in Bhandara, in 1954.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2000&leaf=04&filename=1179&filetype=html

	Politics of Dalitism: creating Dalits among Dalits
		Gandhi" ( Gandhi and Ambedkar - Saviours of Untouchables by Sheshrao Chavan.
		The reaction of Ambedkar over the death of Gandhi may be viewed as a politics of negation for vengeance against the caste Hindus and also for political power for Dalits.
		Post Ambedkar Dalit Movement: The post-Gandhian and post-Ambedkar Dalit activists re-invented the direction of their movement, which was by and large focussed towards developing the negative ideas in a dark room.
	www.saag.org /papers4/paper331.html

	Buddhism
		Ambedkar, for one, was alienated by much in the existing Buddhist communities in Asia, feeling that the Bhikku Sangha in particular had become in most cases too unworldly and parasitical.
		Before Ambedkar there was Pandit Iyothee Thass, a Tamil `outcaste' who argued that Tamils were originally Buddhists and organised a thriving Buddhist movement around the turn of the century.
		But Ambedkar saw the need for a religion that would provide the spiritual and moral basis for equality as an integral part of these struggles.
	saxakali.com /southasia/newpage24.htm

	Letter: Dr. Ambedkar
		Ambedkar was for such democracy for which social and economic democracy is a must.
		Ambedkar tried his best to revitalize that religion in order to liberate at least one fourth of India's population from societal violence.
		This piece is straight as it gives Dr. Ambedkar's views on social and economic democracy in a capsule manner.
	www.pucl.org /reports/National/ambedkar.htm

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN October 2003 Review Hindutva’s Hoax
		Ambedkar did initially talk the language of reform—as did others in their own limited ways—but he had in the end to move away from Hinduism.
		Ambedkar did tell the New York Times in 1932 that & best friends I have had in my life were some of my classmates at Columbia and my great professors, John Dewey, James Shotwell, Edwin Seligman and James Harvey Robinson”.
		But in the process of resurrecting Ambedkar, Nanda chooses to read him through the eyes of John Dewey, whose name surfaces in the odd footnote in some of Ambedkar’s works and was one of his teachers at Columbia University in New York.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/october/review_1.htm

	About the Ambedkar Foundation
		Ambedkar Foundation was established by the Government of India under the aegis of the Ministry of Welfare (now Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment) on March 24, 1992 as a registered society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
		Ambedkar on 14th April and 6th December every year respectively at the statue of Baba Saheb in the Parliament House lawns.
		Ambedkar International Award has been instituted to commemorate the signal services rendered by dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar to India and human family at large.
	ambedkarfoundation.nic.in /html/aboutus.htm

	Ambedkar's wife passes away
		She married Dr Ambedkar on April 15, 1948 in New Delhi and was a close witness to his contribution in framing the Indian Constitution and the event of embracing Buddhism.
		Following Dr Ambedkar's death, Mai came under attack from his close associates, who alleged that she was responsible for the former's demise, prompting the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to appoint a committee to look into the episode.
		She came in contact with Dr Ambedkar in 1947 when the latter was suffering from diabetes and blood pressure.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/may/29mai.htm

	Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism
		Ambedkar says, What is important to note is that it is the minority nations, which have taken the lead in opposing the formation of a communal party.
		Ambedkar was no Muslim baiter as he was a very meticulous and careful scholar and would not indulge, like members of the Sangh Parivar, into community baiting.
		Ambedkar is, on the whole, quite objective in assessing the history of Muslim rulers.
	ecumene.org /IIS/csss101.htm

	Mayawati, Katiyar spat over Ambedkar
		She added, "It was Ambedkar who made provisions for no discrimination on the lines of caste, creed, or religion; his aim was to build an Indian society on human values."
		"Nobody has read Ambedkar and his works more than me; and I can affirm that whatever the state BJP president has said about him was distorted and intended at misleading people," Mayawati said in an official statement issued on Monday night.
		Katiyar stuck to his guns, claiming whatever he had said about Ambedkar was based on facts.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jan/02sharat.htm

	Centre for Ambedkar Studies
		The Centre for Ambedkar Studies has a twin purpose: to examine the life, works and thought of Babasaheb Ambedkar; and, from that starting-point, to study and document the state of the dalits and other depressed and deprived sections of the nation.
		There is a plan to translate Ambedkar's works into Bengali.
		This study relates to both social practice and social theory, and is directed towards affirmative action.
	www.jadavpur.edu /academics/centres_ambedkar.htm

	Babashaheb BhimRao Ambedkar : BhimRao Ambedkar : Ambedkar
		Teacher Ambedkar and Pendse, were the only ones in the entire school who were kind and affectionate to young Bhim.
		Bhim Rao Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow, Central India into the under-privileged Mahar caste.
		When India became independent in 1947, Ambedkar was appointed the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly.
	www.bangalinet.com /ambedkar.htm

	b. r. ambedkar
		AMBEDKAR B. / Social justice and political safeguards for depressed classes.
		SHARMA Kusum / Ambedkar and Indian constitution / 1992 / New Delhi
		AHIR D.C. / Dr. Ambedkar and Indian Constitution / 1997 / Delhi
	www.gandhiserve.org /sale/library_books_english/b_r_ambedkar/b_r_ambedkar.html

	Ambedkar score - Deccan Herald
		Ambedkar College defeated Presidency College 2-1 in the KSFA President’s Cup inter-collegiate football tournament at the Bangalore Football Stadium on Monday.
		But they were unable to build on that advantage and Ambedkar fought their way back into the match in difficult underfoot conditions.
		Ganesh K J equalised in the 37th minute and in the second half, Anand Kumar struck what turned out to be the match-winner in the 56th minute.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct192004/sp13.asp

	Oxford University Press
		Issues inspired by Ambedkar presently confronting the Buddhist movement are highlighted in the last section of the book, as are the various categories that exist within this seemingly homogenous group.
		This book throws light on the very contentious issues related to the social phenomenon of new Buddhism with which Dr Ambedkar is associated.
		Social Equality and Democracy in Ambedkar s Understanding of Buddhism Reinventing an Egalitarian and Universal Religion 6.
	www.oup.com /in/isbn/0-19-566529-5?view=in

	Dalit books and related literature
		R.S.Harit is one of the participants in the discussion on Mission of Baba Saheb Ambedkar.
		BAWS Vol 13 Dr. Ambedkar as the Principal Rs.
		BAWS Vol 2- Dr. Ambedkar in the Bombay Rs.
	www.dalitindia.org /gen/dalitbook.htm

	The Original Home of the Hindus (Interview of Dr Ambedkar)
		Though the author himself does not agree with all of Sri Ambedkar’s conclusions, the dialogue is significant for the fact of Sri Ambedkar’s total rejection of the theory of Aryan invasion as “a perversion of scientific investigation”.)
		(The Father of the Indian Constitution, Dr B. Ambedkar, was the foremost nationalist leader of the oppressed classes and an erudite scholar.
		Ambedkar: No. After deep study of the subject I have come to conclude:
	www.hvk.org /articles/0302/151.html

	Christianity
		The Ambedkar Buddhist movement follow the Theravadin tradition and began when Dr. Ambedkar and 500,000 followers embraced Buddhism on the 14th October 1956 at Nagpur in the Maharashtra state of India.
		The first meeting of Ambedkar Buddhists in Birmingham was organised by Sansari Lal in 1956 at Helen Street, Junior School, Hockley.
		The numbers of people connected to Ambedkar Buddhist group in this country have steadily grown so that by 1962 the Indian Buddhist Society was formed and within ten years the Dr.
	www.redditch93.freeserve.co.uk /Ambedkar.htm

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