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FACULTY OF JURIDICAL SCIENCES IS GOING TO CELEBRATE AMBEDKAR JAYANTI 2019
14 Apr 2019 Rama University, Kanpur
FACULTY OF JURIDICAL SCIENCES is going to celebrate AMBEDKAR JAYANTI 2019 on Sunday 14th of April, at Rama University, Kanpur. The day will be celebrated with great zeal and zest across the country. People will pay tribute to their great leader and the ‘Architect of the Indian Constitution’.
ABOUT DR. BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14th of April in the year 1891 to the Ramji Maloji Sakpal and Bhimabai in a poor Mahar family in Mhow, Central Provinces, British India (Madhya Pradesh). He died on 6th of December in 1956 at the age of 65 in Delhi, India. He was popular among public by the name Babasaheb because of his great contributions towards the Indian society. He served in India throughout his life as a jurist, philosopher, social activist, politician, historian, anthropologist and economist as well as revivalist for the Buddhism in India to bring Modern Buddhist movement. He became the first law minister of the Independent India and drafted the Constitution of India.
EARLY LIFE
He struggled throughout his life for the campaign of eradicating the casteism and social discrimination in India. He own converted to the Buddhism to inspire the lower group people for which he was addressed as a Bodhisattva by the Indian Buddhists. He faced the social discrimination from his childhood when he joined the government school. He and his other colleagues were isolated by other high group students and paid little attention by the teachers. Even, they were not permitted to sit in class and touch the water. They were provided water by the person of higher caste from a distance.
EDUCATION
In his early life his surname was Ambavadekar, got from his village “Ambavade” in Ratnagiri District, which was later changed to Ambedkar by his Brahmin teacher, Mahadev Ambedkar. He joined the Elphinstone High School, Bombay as an only untouchable in 1897. He got married to the nine-year old Ramabai in 1906. After passing his matriculation examination in 1907 he successfully succeeded to other exams.
He got his economics and political science degree in 1912 from the Bombay University. He went to the United States 1913 to complete his postgraduate education at the Columbia University in New York City after getting awarded with the Baroda State Scholarship of £11.50 every month for 3 years. He completed his M.A. exam in 1915 and Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1917. He again completed his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics in 1921 and D.Sc. in Economics in 1923.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF Dr. B. R. AMBEDKAR
He worked to eliminate the social belief of untouchability for the lower group of people. He protested to uplift the untouchables in the society to enhance their social status during law practice in the Bombay High Court. He had organized an event called Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha to encourage the education among untouchables for their socio-economic improvement and welfare of the outcastes people of depressed classes. He also protected the Dalit rights by organizing various programs like “Mook Nayak, Bahishkrit Bharat and Equality Janta”.
He had started an active public movements and marches in 1927 against untouchability to remove the untouchability for water resources as well as enter to the Hindu temples (Kalaram Temple movement in 1930). He has demanded for the separate electorate through the Poona Pact to reserve seats for untouchable people of depressed class.
He was invited by the Congress government to serve as a first Law Minister after the independence of India on 15thof August in 1947 and appointed as a “Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee” on 29th of August in 1947 where he drafted the new Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th of November in 1949.
He had played his great role in establishing the Reserve Bank of India as he was a professional economist. He became successful in forming the Reserve Bank of India in 1934 after giving his ideas to the Hilton Young Commission through his three successful scholarly books on economics such as “Administration and Finance of the East India Company, The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India, and The Problem of the Rupee: Its Origin and Its Solution”.
He also played his role in planning the Indian economic as he got his Economics doctorate degree from abroad. He encouraged people for the growth and development of the industrialization and agricultural industry to enhance the economy of country. He had given ideas to the government for accomplishing the food security goal. He encouraged people for good education, hygiene and community health as their basic requirement. He had established the Finance Commission of India.
He had opposed the Article 370 in the Constitution of India in order to provide the special status to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
