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Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 in the town and military cantonment of Mhow (now officially known as Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Madhya Pradesh). [9] He was the 14th and last child of Ramji Maloji Sakpal , an army officer who held the rank of Subedar , and Bhimabai Sakpal, daughter of Laxman Murbadkar. [ 10 ]
Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar was an Indian independence activist, Gandhian [citation needed] and social worker, best known as the man who defeated B. R. Ambedkar in a general election. [1] A Marathi by birth, he served as a personal assistant to Ambedkar, [ 2 ] before contesting against him in the first Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North ...
Ambedkar claims that the application of the word in the Hindu sense is incorrect as it wrongly associates them with the people and culture of the Indo-Aryan society, who committed wrongdoings, such as offending the Brahmins. [4] Ambedkar also discusses Aryan race theory and rejects Indo-Aryan invasion theory [5] in the book. [6]
Babasaheb Ambedkar was born into abject poverty. By 1930, however, his financial situation improved as he became a well-known barrister. Ambedkar's legal office was near Damodar Hall in Parel. Eventually Ambedkar's house at Prabhadevi could no longer accommodate his growing book collection, so he decided to build a new house for himself and his ...
Ambedkar died at the bungalow on 6 December 1956. [4] Savita Ambedkar continued to live there, and Ambedkar's papers remained in a storeroom. In 1966, Madan Lal Jain purchased the bungalow: he allowed Savita Ambedkar to retain two rooms, gave one part of the building to his son-in-law, and rented another part to an Additional Sessions Judge. [3]
Joginder Singh was born on 26 September 1921 in Mahla Kalan, Moga district, Punjab, British India.He spent his childhood in the same village. His father Sher Singh Sahnan belonged to an agricultural Saini Sikh family which had relocated to Mahla Kalan in Moga district from the village Munak Kalan (often pronounced as Munaka) in Hoshiarpur district.
Namantar means name change [1] and andolan means social movement. [2] The Namantar Andolan was a 16-year-long Dalit campaign to rename Marathwada University in recognition of B. R. Ambedkar, the jurist, politician and social reformer who had proposed that untouchability should be made illegal.
The 1997 Ramabai killings were a mass killing of Dalit residents of the Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar colony in Mumbai on 11 July 1997. A team of State Reserve Police Force members fired upon a crowd protesting the recent desecration of a statue of Constitution maker B. R. Ambedkar. 10 Dalits were killed and 26 injured in the incident.