Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
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He chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India — the architecture of the world's largest democracy — and spent his life dismantling caste from both the inside and the outside, finally leaving Hinduism altogether in 1956 and taking hundreds of thousands of Dalits with him into Buddhism.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born 14 April 1891 and built an improbable academic path out: Elphinstone College, then doctorates from Columbia University in 1927 and the London School of Economics in 1923, training in law at Gray's Inn — among the first Indian students to do so at either American or British institution in that decade. At Columbia he studied under John Dewey, absorbing pragmatist philosophy that would shape his later work. He returned as economist, professor, and lawyer, but his career turned political: campaigning for Dalit rights, negotiating through partition, publishing journa…
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I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does.
Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Everything is subject to inquiry and examination.
It is an incontrovertible fact that Christianity was not enough to end the slavery of the Negroes in the United States.
The Communists say that there are the only two means of establishing communism. The first is violence. Nothing short of it will suffice to break up the existing system.
My own view is that great men are of great service to their country but they are also at certain times a great hinderance to the progress of their country.
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