Social Fundamental

B. R. Ambedkar was an eminent leader, social reformer, scholar and jurist. Go through this biography to learn in details about his life, career, works and timeline.

B.R. Ambedkar was a leading activist and social reformer who gave his life working for the upliftment of the Dalits and the socially backward class of India.

A messiah for the downtrodden, he continuously fought for eradication of caste discrimination that had fragmented the Indian society and made it cripple. Born in a socially backward family, Ambedkar was the victim of caste discrimination, inequality and prejudice. However, fighting all odds, he attained higher education thus becoming the first ever untouchable to attain the same. No sooner after completing his studies, he launched himself politically fighting for the rights of the depressed class and inequality practiced in the society.

He was a crusader of social equality and justice. Academically trained as a jurist, he went on to become the first Law Minister of Free India and the framer or chief architect of the Constitution of India. In his later years, he acted as a revivalist of Buddhism in India, by converting himself to the religion to free himself from the perils of caste differences and unfairness practiced by the Hindus.

Ideas of Dr. Ambedkar on Social Justice

Ambedkar’s vision of social justice promotes the liberty, equality, and brotherhood of all humans. As a rationalist and humanist, he condemned any form of hypocrisy, injustice, or exploitation of man by man in the guise of religion. He advocated for a religion founded on universal moral principles that may be applied to all times, places, and races. It must follow reason and be founded on the fundamental principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

He saw the caste system as the root cause of Hinduism’s problems. According to him, the varna system is the primary cause of all inequity, as well as the source of caste and untouchability. Ambedkar advocated for a social system in which a man’s rank is determined by his merit and achievements, and no one is noble or untouchable because of his or her birth.