Just a few months before he died he converted to Buddhism and sparked the Dalit Buddhist movement that saw hundreds of thousands of dalits convert from Hinduism. Ambedkar's humanist approach and Gandhi's religious approach were frequently at odds. Gandhi about their respective roles as champions of the dalit masses. He is remembered by many for his very public disagreements with Mohandas K. He served as law minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's first cabinet. Ambedkar became a renown scholar and activist lawyer who published journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India's untouchables (dalits). Ambedkar became one of the first untouchables to obtain a college education in India. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Marathi: बाबासाहेब भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर) (ApDecember 6, 1956) was a Buddhist revivalist, Indian jurist, scholar, and Bahujan political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India.īorn into a poor Untouchable community he spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the Indian caste system.
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