- Dr. B R Ambedkar was born on 14 April 1891 at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh.
- Ambedkar was elected as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly.
- He is called as the father of the Indian Constitution.
- Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha was the first organization formed by Dr. Ambedkar in 1924.
- Ambedkar was appointed as the first Law Minister of Independent India, but he resigned from the Cabinet on September 1951 due to differences with Nehru on the Hindu Code Bill.
- Ambedkar got himself converted to Buddhism on October 14, 1956.
- He died on December 6, 1956 at Delhi due to severe diabetic neurosis.
- After his death, his political party Scheduled Caste Federation was renamed as Republican Party of India in 1957 by his followers.
- Some of his famous books are:
- ‘The Untouchable: Who are They and Why They Have Become Untouchables’;
- ‘Buddha and His Dhamma’;
- ‘The Rise and Fall of Hindu Women‘,
- ‘Emancipation of Untouchables’,
- ‘The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India’;
- ‘Pakistan or Partition of India‘,
- ‘Thoughts on Linguistic States’