Architect of India’s Constitution

B. R. Ambedkar

1891–1956 · Mhow and Bombay · South Asian

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A jurist and economist born into a caste treated as untouchable, who led the Dalit movement and chaired the drafting of India’s constitution.

Key work: Annihilation of Caste (1936)

“Educate, agitate, organise.”

Closing words of his speech to the All-India Depressed Classes Conference, Nagpur, July 1942, as reported by Dhananjay Keer

Key ideas, in brief (in our words)

Democracy is a way of living together, not only of voting.
Political equality fails without social equality.
Caste divides laborers, not just labor.

B. R. Ambedkar

Key ideas, in brief (in our words)

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