Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Columbia-educated Minister for Law in Nehru’s cabinet, is an “untouchable,” and heads the largest group of India’s ... us at [email protected] ...

He was born on 14 April 1891, part of a family that belonged to the Hindu Mahar community, one of the untouchable castes in India at the time. Dr Ambedkar, left, at the Fourth Conference of the ...

At the end of the final reading of India's constitution on 25 November ... When the constituent assembly met for the first time in December 1946, Ambedkar admitted: "I know today we are divided ...