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The “largest” statue of B R Ambedkar outside India is all set to be unveiled in Maryland on October 14, the organisers have said. The 19-foot statue, named “Statue of Equality”, has been made by ...
There is much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the African Americans in America, Ambedkar wrote in 1946, according to BAWS Vol.10.Dr.Yengde noted ...
CJI Gavai was a part of the five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court that had upheld the Centre’s decision to ...
The third danger Ambedkar spoke of in that 1949 speech was the need to protect the sanctity of constitutional methods. He said we must abandon the methods of civil disobedience, non-cooperation ...
In 1938, American writer John Gunther visited Rajgriha and was astonished at the size and variety of the book collection. Ambedkar was a regular visitor to Thacker and Co. bookstore in Mumbai.
(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.
Ambedkar’s statements testify to his belief in the Hindutva ideology, which claims that there exists a cultural unity among the followers of faiths born in India.
Dr Ambedkar's educational achievements were extraordinary for his time, especially for someone from the oppressed classes. He completed his matriculation in 1907 and was felicitated in a public ...
Ambedkar also proposed the division of Uttar Pradesh into three states in the book. He said that each of these three states should have a population of around two crore, which he considered the ...
Ambedkar remarks row: A letter from India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Lady Edwina Mountbatten has surfaced. Let's know what Nehru said to Mountbatten.