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Today stocky, bald Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 58, is Minister of Law in the government of India, and no longer an untouchable; India's new government has outlawed untouchability. His favor is courted by the great and powerful, and even high-born Brahmins are flattered to be asked to tea with Minister Ambedkar in the tiffin room of the Indian Parliament...
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an untouchable, reared in the Hindu teaching that even his shadow would pollute a high-caste Indian. Like every other good Hindu, he was enjoined for his soul's good to accept with resignation the life to which he was born. But even as a boy, Bhimrao had other plans. Supporting himself as a hamal (one who cleans floors and bathrooms), he worked his way through the village school, won a scholarship for college in Bombay, where reports of his intelligence reached the ears of the benevolent Gaekwar of Baroda. The Gaekwar sent...
Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
...Delhi one morning last week, a plump, bespectacled little man in a conspicuously Western suit rose before India's bored Constituent Assembly. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Law Minister and chairman of the constitutional drafting committee, was proposing the eleventh of the new Indian Constitution's 315 articles: "Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of untouchability shall be an offense punishable according...
...argued turgidly. Gaunt, scholarly, widely hated Home Member Sir Reginald Maxwell inadvertently contradicted Winston Churchill's claim of "reassuring" conditions (TIME, Sept. 21) by an account of railways damaged and of Bengal Province having been for a while "almost completely cut off from northern India." Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Columbia University-educated Untouchable leader, claimed strikes at the great Tata Iron & Steel Works had the connivance of the management, which paid workers three months in advance...